
What exactly is the best way to choose dedicated IP bandwidth without wasting money?
Many people in the selection of a dedicated IP server is easy to fall into two extremes: either in order to save money to choose the lowest bandwidth resulting in business lag, or blind pursuit of high bandwidth resulting in a waste of resources. In fact, as long as you master the matching law of business characteristics and bandwidth, you can avoid stepping on the pit.
Take the data collection scenario as an example, assuming that each request transmits about 200KB of data. when the business needs to process 10 requests per second, the actual bandwidth required = 200KB × 10 × 8 = 16Mbps (note the unit conversion). At this time, if you choose 20Mbps bandwidth, both to ensure stable operation and 15% margin to cope with unexpected traffic.
Bandwidth Adjustment Tips for Dynamic Business Scenarios
For businesses with highly fluctuating access, fixed bandwidth solutions are prone to resource wastage. At this timeDynamic Bandwidth AdjustmentThis is especially important. ipipgo's dedicated IP service supports minute-by-minute bandwidth adjustments, allowing users to flexibly control costs based on real-time traffic dashboards.
As an example: an e-commerce customer's traffic during promotion hours is 3 times that of weekdays. Through ipipgo's console to set up timed tasks, every day at 18:00 automatically increase the bandwidth from 50Mbps to 150Mbps, and then 23:00 to restore the initial configuration, which saves about 40% of bandwidth costs per month.
Latency pitfalls that multinational operations must be aware of
Many users only focus on the bandwidth value, but ignore the latency problem caused by geographic location. Measurement data shows that under the same bandwidth, the response speed of cross-country lines may be 5-8 times slower than that of local lines. ipipgo'sLocalized Deployment Solutionscan effectively solve this problem:
| Business Type | Recommended Programs |
|---|---|
| Localization Services | Residential IP + local bandwidth in your country |
| Cross-border data synchronization | Dual-end deployment + dedicated encrypted channel |
| distributed service | Multi-node Intelligent Dispatch System |
Five Hidden Bandwidth Killers
These details are not taken care of, and may let the actual bandwidth utilization drop by 50%:
1. Data compression not enabled (Gzip reduces 60% traffic)
2. Repeated requests for the same resource (local caching recommended)
3. Use of non-persistent connections (consuming 0.5-1 seconds per connection establishment)
4. Unoptimized image size (WebP format is 25% smaller than JPG)
5. Excessive protocol overhead (Socks5 lite protocol from ipipgo is recommended)
Frequently Asked Questions QA
Q: Is IP quality better with more bandwidth?
A: Totally wrong. ipipgo's residential IP quality depends on the carrier's cooperation level, and the bandwidth only affects the transmission speed. There have been customers using 100Mbps bandwidth to collect public data, the actual effective bandwidth utilization is only 15%.
Q: How to test the real required bandwidth?
A: It is recommended to turn on the traffic monitoring function in the ipipgo console to observe the peak business hours:
1. Peak requests per second
2. Volume of single response data
3. Number of simultaneous connections
The bandwidth values calculated from these three metrics are the most accurate.
Q: What is the difference between dynamic IP and static IP bandwidth selection?
A: Dynamic IP is recommended to reserve 30% bandwidth margin to cope with the authentication process when IP switching; static IP due to the connection stability, reserve 15% can be. ipipgo supports the mixed use of the two modes, in the console can be set up in different bandwidth policy.
By choosing a reasonable bandwidth plan with ipipgo's intelligent scheduling system, we have measured that users can reduce bandwidth costs by an average of 35%. Remember the key principle:Don't pay for speed you can't use, but leave enough for critical operationsThe

