List of key points for review of agency service provider contracts

I. How many potholes are hidden in the contract? Keep an eye on these 5 minefields first

If you are looking for a proxy IP service provider to work with, you will fall into a pit in minutes if you don't read the contract carefully. Last year, a buddy signed a contract without paying attention to the traffic billing method, the end of the bill directly tripled. Here I teach you how to get to the point:

1. Billing model to be keyworded: Is the traffic pack zeroed out monthly or accumulated on a rolling basis? How to calculate the cost of sudden traffic overage? The most pitiful case I've seen is written "hourly step billing", but the user's test script ran out of traffic in the middle of the night.

2. Word games on usability commitmentsThe first thing you need to do is to look at whether it's "single node availability" or "overall network availability". A platform has played this trick, the contract is written 99.9% availability, the result refers to their server online time, and the user can actually use it has nothing to do.

3. The number of IP changes is misleadingSome contracts say "unlimited replacement", but you have to manually refresh them. We recommend using ipipgo with automatic rotation function, the background set up a good strategy to avoid being blocked.

Second, the terms of service must be dead on 3 details

Customers who sign contracts with ipipgo are reminded to focus on these areas:

1. Don't be fooled by averages for response times: We have encountered contracts that say "average response time <2 seconds", but the result is that the response time in the early hours of the morning is 8 seconds, which lowers the average value. It is necessary to agree on the time response standard, such as peak ≤ 1.5 seconds, off-peak ≤ 3 seconds.

2. Responsibility for data security needs to be delineatedThe contract must state the length of time the logs will be kept, the encryption method, and the deletion mechanism. ipipgo's contract template for this part is particularly detailed, and even the hard disk destruction process has been written.

3. Termination clauses hide the trap of liquidated damagesFocus on the early termination clause. There is a cross-border e-commerce customers have been pitted, the contract is written "30 days' notice can be canceled", but the small print notes to pay the remaining months of the cost of 20%.

Third, the novice must see the contract blind QA

Q: What if the IP type is not written in the contract?
A: I have met customers who thought they bought residential IP, but they got server room IP, and they have to write down the IP type (data center/residential/mobile), ASN number, and operator in black and white.

Q: How do I verify the authenticity of the IP pool?
A: ipipgo users can check the IP distribution map directly in the background, but also can export the IP segments used in the last 30 days. Remember to test the account to run for two days before signing the contract.

Q: How is responsibility defined for emergencies?
A: Focus on the force majeure clause. Once the Ali cloud server room failure, an agent service provider bit into force majeure does not compensate. Our contract will be written in the network interruption of more than 2 hours to start the compensation mechanism.

Fourth, why older drivers are choosing ipipgo

Having recently reviewed a dozen contracts for clients, ipipgo's terms are really conscientious in comparison:

1. Transparent billing down to the minute, automatic suspension of traffic overruns will not result in overpriced bills.
2. Each IP with a diagnostic report, can find out which platforms have been blocked before
3. Unique IP warm-up service, 48 hours in advance to the IP will be enabled to do the environment to nurture

Last week, I just helped a customer doing overseas questionnaire survey to optimize the contract, after using ipipgo's intelligent routing function, the success rate from 23% directly soared to 67%. contract this thing is to put the ugly words in front, according to these points I said to check each one of these points, at least you can avoid the pit of 90%.