Proxy types, rotation strategies, and the tradeoffs between residential, datacenter, and mobile IP pools.
A residential proxy routes your HTTP traffic through a real residential internet connection — a home broadband or fiber line — instead of through a datacenter.
A rotating proxy is a proxy service that automatically assigns a different outbound IP address to each request, or to each new session, drawn from a pool of available IPs.
Proxy web scraping is the practice of routing scraper traffic through proxy servers — intermediate machines that forward requests on your behalf — so the target site sees the proxy.
A mobile proxy routes scraper requests through 4G or 5G mobile-carrier IP addresses — T-Mobile, Vodafone, O2, AT&T, and similar networks.
An ISP proxy (also called a "static residential" proxy) is a static IP hosted in a datacenter but announced under a consumer ISP's autonomous system number (ASN).
A datacenter proxy is an IP hosted in a commercial cloud or hosting facility — AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, OVH, Hetzner.