Residential vs datacenter proxies: how to choose
Compare residential and datacenter proxies by network, content success, latency, session needs and billing, with five checks to guide your own tests.
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Choosing proxies
Compare proxy types, evaluate providers and plan a test before committing to a service. All posts.
Amazon and Google: why HTTP 200 can still mean failure
Why an HTTP 200 from Amazon or Google can still be a failed scrape: challenge pages, empty shells, robots rules and the official data options to check first.
What to measure in a proxy benchmark
Compare proxies using content success, response times and session behaviour, with a curl-based Python harness that records failures and calculates results.