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What Is a Datacenter Proxy?

A datacenter proxy is a proxy whose IP address belongs to a hosting company or cloud provider rather than to a consumer internet provider. It is fast and cheap, but any IP lookup shows that the visitor is a server.

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how it works

How datacenter proxies work

Hosting companies own IP ranges and announce them under their own ASN. A datacenter proxy provider rents servers or address blocks from them and runs proxy software on each IP. You connect to the proxy's address and port, and websites see that hosting IP as the visitor.

Because the addresses are plentiful and the hardware is shared across many customers, datacenter proxies are the cheapest proxies per IP. They are also fast and stable, since nothing depends on a home connection or a phone staying online.

why it matters

Why datacenter proxies matter for proxy users

The weakness is the network, not the speed. Anti-fraud systems look up the ASN of every visitor, and a hosting ASN tells them the traffic comes from a server. Sites that only expect people, such as retailers, travel sites, social platforms and search engines, often add CAPTCHAs, lower limits or blocks for hosting ranges as a class, whatever the IP reputation of the single address.

A datacenter IP with a clean history is still a hosting IP. Clean reputation helps on sites that score individual addresses, but it does not change the network type that a single lookup reveals.

Datacenter proxies still have good uses: testing your own services from other addresses, reading APIs and sites that don't filter by network type, and bulk downloads where speed matters more than how the visitor looks.

  • Datacenter proxy

    This term
    ASN in a lookup
    Hosting or cloud provider
    Speed
    Server uplinks
    Treatment on strict sites
    Challenged or limited as a class
    Price per IP
    Lowest

  • ISP proxy

    ASN in a lookup
    Consumer internet provider
    Speed
    Server uplinks
    Treatment on strict sites
    Treated like home broadband
    Price per IP
    Higher

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Straight answers about Datacenter proxy.

Yes, easily. One ASN lookup shows that the IP belongs to a hosting or cloud provider, so sites know the request comes from a server even if they cannot see that it is a proxy.

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