Guides

How to Test If Your Proxy Is Working

Test your proxy with browser checks, curl, Python, and online proxy checker tool...

How to Set Up a Datacenter Proxy on Windows

Learn how to set up a datacenter proxy on Windows using Settings, netsh winhttp,...

How to Rotate Proxies in Python

Rotate proxies in Python with round-robin, random, and weighted strategies. Cove...

How to Integrate Proxies with Selenium

Set up a Selenium proxy for Chrome and Firefox. Covers ChromeOptions, Selenium W...

How to Configure a Datacenter Proxy on Mac

Configure a datacenter proxy on Mac via System Settings or networksetup CLI. Cov...

How to Avoid Getting Your Proxy Blocked

Avoid proxy blocks with TLS fingerprint matching, realistic headers, and crawl r...

How Proxy Servers and IP Addressing Work Together

A proxy substitutes its own IP for yours on every request. This guide explains h...

Securing Proxy Servers Against SSRF and Proxy Abuse

SSRF and open proxy abuse expose internal networks to attackers. This guide cove...

Guide to Proxy DNS Leak Testing and Mitigation

DNS leaks expose your queries to ISPs even when using a proxy. Learn how to test...

Selenium WebDriver Datacenter Proxy Setup: Python, Node...

Datacenter proxies hit 99.88% success at 0.38s median response. Full Selenium We...

Scrape High-Volume Public Data Without Getting Rate-Lim...

Naive scrapers hit 429s before proxies even matter. Learn concurrency models, ex...

Bypass IP Fingerprinting with Clean Datacenter Subnets

IP fingerprinting blocks entire ASN ranges, not just individual IPs. Learn how c...

Python requests and aiohttp: Proxies for Async Scraping

Async scraping with aiohttp handles 50+ concurrent proxy requests where synchron...

Hybrid Proxy Strategy: Combine Datacenter and Residenti...

Residential proxies cost 7× more per GB than datacenter. A hybrid routing strate...

Manage Per-IP Rate Limits with Rotating Proxies (2026)

Scrapers hit per-IP limits within minutes on protected sites. Learn rotation str...

Proxy vs VPN: How to Choose Based on Your Use Case (2026)

65%+ of enterprises run proxies and VPNs for different problems. This guide maps...