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All about datacenter proxies

Datacenter proxies are assigned from hosting networks. They are a good fit for internal APIs, documentation sites, and other targets that do not block hosting ranges.

When to use them

Pick datacenter when latency and cost matter more than looking like home or mobile traffic, and a test URL still returns the real page.

When to switch

If you receive block pages, empty bodies, or the wrong geo view, move that job to residential or mobile and re-run the same URL.

Quantity

Datacenter plans are sold by IP count. Keep a simple map of which IP is used for which job so failures are easy to isolate.

Instructions

  1. 1. Validate on one IP

    Configure one datacenter endpoint and fetch a known-good URL.

  2. 2. Measure

    Record status codes and time-to-first-byte against the same target you will use in production.

  3. 3. Add IPs only after the parser is stable

    Do not scale concurrency until error rates stay low.

Datacenter connectivity check
Replace USERNAME, PASSWORD, HOST, and PORT with values from your dashboard.
curl -x http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT https://example.com

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