# Choosing proxies

Source: https://ipvolt.com/blog/tag/choosing
Markdown: https://ipvolt.com/blog/tag/choosing.md

Compare proxy types, evaluate providers and plan a test before committing to a service.

- [Residential vs datacenter proxies: how to choose](https://ipvolt.com/blog/residential-vs-datacenter-proxies.md) (Comparison, Sep 11, 2026, 5 min read): Compare residential and datacenter proxies by network, content success, latency, session needs and billing, with five checks to guide your own tests.
- [Amazon and Google: why HTTP 200 can still mean failure](https://ipvolt.com/blog/scraping-amazon-google-through-a-proxy.md) (Analysis, Sep 11, 2026, 7 min read): 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](https://ipvolt.com/blog/what-a-proxy-benchmark-should-measure.md) (Analysis, Sep 11, 2026, 7 min read): Compare proxies using content success, response times and session behaviour, with a curl-based Python harness that records failures and calculates results.

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