What is a proxy: Principles of proxy servers

What exactly is a proxy server?

Our daily Internet surfing is like sending and receiving a courier, your home address is the real IP. proxy servers are the equivalent ofCourier collection point, help you transit the package. For example, you want to take the data from the site, originally directly exposed to their own address, now let the proxy server to go first to get the goods, and then forwarded to you, the whole process the other side can only see the address of the collection point.

Take a real example: you want to check the competitor's website data, but are afraid of being blocked by the other side of the IP, this time with ipipgo's dynamic proxy, each time you visit a different "collection point address", the other side can not figure out in the end who is checking, to protect the real identity at the same time can also be stable access to data.

How do proxy IPs play with workflow?

The proxy server operates in three steps:
1. your device first contacts the ipipgo proxy server (equivalent to finding the nearest delivery point)
2. The proxy server uses its own IP to fetch data from the target website (courier picks up the package for you)
3. Data is transmitted back to you through an encrypted channel (courier delivery)

import requests

proxies = {
    'http': 'http://username:password@gateway.ipipgo.com:9020',
    'https': 'http://username:password@gateway.ipipgo.com:9020'
}

response = requests.get('http://目标网站.com', proxies=proxies)
 Remember to replace the password with the one you got from ipipgo.

Three application scenarios you must know to do business

Scenario 1: Bulk Registration Anti-Association
Do social platform operation know, batch registration account is afraid of being detected the same IP. ipipgo residential agent, each account is assigned a real home broadband IP, the registration success rate directly doubled.

Scenario 2: Price monitoring without dropping the ball
E-commerce price comparison needs 7×24 hours to catch the data. Tested with an average of ordinary proxies will not last more than 6 hours on the IP blocking, ipipgo's commercial proxy pool automatically replace 20%IP every day, continuous monitoring for a week without interruption.

Scenario 3: Advertising Verification of Authenticity
The most fearful thing about advertising is that you will encounter false traffic. By simulating real user visits through proxy IPs in different regions, we can accurately detect the effect of advertisement placement, and a customer saved 60% of invalid advertisement expenditure by using this method.

A guide to avoiding the pitfalls of choosing a proxy service provider

Comparison of common agent types on the market:

ipipgo is doing it a little harder on this one, their homeTriple Play Agent PoolBreak up the three types of agents. For example, if you are a cross-border e-commerce customer, you can use a residential agent to catch commodity information during the day, and then automatically cut to a data center agent to do data analysis at night, and you can still mix and match your traffic packages.

First Aid Kit for Beginners

Q: Proxy IPs are not working when I use them?
A: 80% is using a poor quality proxy, ipipgo's IP survival detection system automatically kicks off the failed nodes every 5 minutes, the background can see the real-time health of each IP.

Q: What if I need to operate multiple accounts at the same time?
A: Create multiple sub-accounts in the ipipgo background, and bind each account to an independent IP outlet. There is a client who does TikTok use this trick, 50 accounts operating at the same time also do not string IP.

Q: Sudden slowdown in agent speed?
A: First check if there is a local network problem, then switch the access area in the ipipgo console. There is a tip: choose nodes in non-popular areas (such as Guiyang, Taiyuan) usually have more stable speed.

To be honest, the proxy server this thing looks simple, really want to play around also need to find a reliable service provider. ipipgo has a quite real function - thehourly rateThis is especially suitable for projects that want to rush the amount of data on a temporary basis. Last time a customer to do 618 promotion monitoring, temporarily bought 8 hours of exclusive agent, the cost than the monthly savings of 40%.