What is a VPS server? Core Differences with Dedicated Servers

This is called a VPS, even the king next door doesn't get it.

Recently, an e-commerce buddy asked me, said he spent a lot of money to buy a stand-alone server to hang the store crawler, the results just run three days IP was blocked. I glanced at his machine configuration, directly out of laughter - this is not typical to take the cannon to hit the mosquito? First of all, to the guys to say a true story:A VPS is a virtualized server room, while a Dedicated Server is the equivalent of buying an entire building.. Let's say you're opening a pancake stand, which is more cost-effective, renting a breakfast store window (VPS) or plopping down an entire food court (dedicated server)?

The VPS Survival Rules That Stingy Bosses Love

Say a few of you absolutely need to use the scene: for example, do social account operations, dozens of hands of the horse armor number to switch logging; or engage in data collection, have to change the way to change the IP to prevent blocking. At this time the advantage of VPS is obvious:

Last month, a customer doing overseas purchases, with ipipgo's dynamic residential IP + VPS program, froze the account survival rate from 20% to 85%. the secret is thatAutomatically switch real user IPs from different regions every time you log in, much more resistant to blocking than their counterparts who use server room IPs.

Hands-on VPS + Proxy

Here is a real case code to realize automatic IP change with ipipgo's API (note to replace your_api_key with your own):

import requests

def rotate_ip(): proxy = requests.get()
    proxy = requests.get(
        "https://api.ipipgo.com/getproxy",
        params={"key": "your_api_key", "protocol": "socks5"}
    ).json()

    print(f "Switching IP to {proxy['location']}: {proxy['ip']}:{proxy['port']}")
    return {
        'http': f "socks5://{proxy['ip']}:{proxy['port']}",
        'https': f "socks5://{proxy['ip']}:{proxy['port']}"
    }

 Automatically change the IP for each request
response = requests.get("target site", proxies=rotate_ip())

The essence of this code isChange the real user IP every time you visitThe program is more than ten times more insidious than those with fixed IPs. There is a competitor analysis team tested, with this method of continuous collection of a platform data for 15 days did not trigger the wind control.

The five soul-searching questions that matter most to you.

Q: Is it enough for me to buy the cheapest VPS?
A: If you are doing IP-intensive business, it is recommended that you choose a model with an elastic IP. Like ipipgo cooperation of several cloud vendors, plus 5 dollars can change IP at any time, than buy a separate server cost-effective!

Q: Why is my proxy IP always recognized?
A: ninety percent because of the use of data center IP, now the site anti-climbing are fine. It is recommended to use ipipgoMixed dialing agentRandom switching between residential IP and corporate IP, tested and proven to work.

Q: Do I need to build my own agent pool?
A: Unless the team has a full-time operation and maintenance, it is purely to find a crime. It's more practical to buy a ready-made proxy service and spend your energy on your business. ipipgo's pay-per-use model allows you to use as much as you need without wasting your time.

Q: Which server to choose for overseas business?
A: Focus on the target area. For example, to do Southeast Asia market, choose Singapore VPS + local residential IP; to do Europe and the United States market, with German servers with North American IP. ipipgo support 20 + countries and regions to accurately locate the

Q: How do I judge the quality of the agent?
A: Remember the three indicators: response speed of less than 2 seconds, availability of more than 95%, support for HTTPS protocol. These in ipipgo background can be viewed in real time, do not believe that those who do not give the test business!

Tell me something that's going to offend people.

Finally, a warning to newbies: don't be fooled by those selling dedicated servers! Now, in addition to banks, government and these special units, 90% small and medium-sized enterprises with VPS + proxy program is completely enough to make. Especially like ipipgo this canMinute-by-minute switching of IP segmentsThe service is so much more flexible than sticking to a fixed IP.

Two days ago, there is an overseas crowdfunding customers, with our program to save 60% of the server budget. The secret is to use European and American IP to pull investment during the day, cut Asian IP to do customer service at night, a VSS top three use. So ah, tools should be used on the knife edge, do not follow the wind as the wrongdoer!