Buying a Residential Agent: A Guide to Validating Residential Agent Purchases

I. Why Verify Residential Agents?

Buying a residential agent is like shopping for clothes online - you never know if they fit without trying them on. Many people spend a lot of money on fake agents because they didn't do theBasic validationI'm not sure if you're a good person, but I'm a good person. A buddy and I complained, he was greedy for cheap to buy a proxy, the results of the test found that the IP is all the address of the server room, the business directly cool.

A truly reliable residential agent must fulfill three things:
1. IP address from real home broadband
2. Ability to match specified countries/cities
3. Enough anonymity to leave no trace

Second, three-step verification method practical manual

Step 1: Household registration
Open your browser and typeipinfo.ioFocus onorgfields. For example, see theComcast CableThis kind of operator name is just the right flavor, if it appearsAmazonmaybeGoogle Internet companyThat's the server room IP.

import requests
proxy = {"http": "http://user:pass@ip:port"}
res = requests.get('https://ipinfo.io/json', proxies=proxy)
print(res.json()['org'])

Step 2: Determine the position
expense or outlayip-api.comCheck the latitude and longitude, open Google Maps to check manually. There is a pitfall to note: some proxies show the right country, but the actual server is in the next country, this will trigger the site wind control.

Step 3: Anonymity check
interviewsbrowserleaks.com/ipSee if there is a request header such as X-Forwarded-For that exposes the real IP. Here to teach a trick: continuously switch five different IP access to the same test site, to see if there are traces of correlation.

III. Guide to avoiding pitfalls (with real cases)

Case 1:An e-commerce company used a proxy to do data collection and was blocked in three days. Later it was found that the proxy pool they bought had too high a reuse rate, and the same IP was used by multiple users in turn.

Solution:Switch to ipipgo.Exclusive use of static homesPackage, each IP bound to a single user, the monthly block rate from 37% to 2.1%.

IV. QA First Aid Kit

Q: What is the difference between dynamic and static proxies?
A: Dynamic IP every connection to change the address, suitable for short-term tasks; static IP fixed, suitable for the need to log in the business. For example: if you have a TikTok account, you have to use static, and it is more cost-effective to use dynamic to temporarily check the price of a competitor.

Q: What's so special about ipipgo's TK line?
A: Their TK line goes to the home broadband whitelist, will not be recognized as proxy traffic. There is a cross-border e-commerce friends, using ordinary proxy message always be limited flow, change the dedicated line after the message reading up 8 times.

Fifth, how to choose the package does not cost money

Based on our experience testing 200+ projects:
- Data Acquisition OptionsDynamic Residential (Enterprise Edition), $9.47/GB can carry high concurrency
- Individual account management directly onStatic homesI'll buy a stabilized IP for 35 bucks and it'll last me a month.
- Just started the proposal to buy the dynamic standard version of the first test, the cost of $ 7.67 / GB trial and error does not hurt!

There's a particularly useful feature of ipipgo - theshared pool. For example, if you are running data collection and ad monitoring at the same time, different businesses can share the traffic package, which saves more than 30% than buying separate packages. Their customer service can also give to do usage analysis, tell you which business consumes more traffic, this is particularly useful for cost control.

Lastly, I would like to remind you not to believe those who say they can permanently free proxy, our technical team has disassembled their clients and found that they are secretly selling user bandwidth. If you want to buy, look for ipipgo this kind of explicit price, at least with a solid.