Proxy types, rotation strategies, and the tradeoffs between residential, datacenter, and mobile IP pools.
A residential proxy sends your web traffic through a real home internet connection — a regular broadband or fiber line — instead of through a datacenter.
A rotating proxy is a proxy service that automatically gives each request — or each new session — a different outbound IP address, picked from a pool of many IPs.
Proxy web scraping means sending your scraper's traffic through proxy servers — middleman machines that forward your requests for you — so the target website sees the proxy's IP ad.
A mobile proxy sends your scraper's requests out through real 4G or 5G mobile-carrier IP addresses — networks like T-Mobile, Vodafone, O2, and AT&T.
An ISP proxy (also called a \"static residential\" proxy) is a fixed IP address that physically sits in a datacenter but is registered to a consumer internet provider.
A datacenter proxy is an IP address that lives inside a commercial cloud or hosting company — AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, OVH, Hetzner.
A DNS leak is when your computer looks up website names through its own DNS resolver instead of through the proxy, which exposes the real network hiding behind that proxy.
IP rotation is the practice of cycling outgoing requests through a pool of many IP addresses instead of sending them all from one.
To rotate proxies in Python you keep a pool of proxy URLs and switch which one you send through on each request (or each session), so the target site sees traffic spread across man.