Datacenter proxies
Hosting-provider IPs bought by the unit on 7/30/90-day leases — lowest latency and price, with renewals that keep the same IP.
Datacenter IPs, fixed and unchanging, with the best latency and lowest price of the four lines. The trade-off is an ASN in a hosting range, which strict anti-bot systems detect more readily.
Billing and lease terms
- Unit: one IP × lease term
- Lease tiers: 7 / 30 / 90 days
- Protocol:
httporsocks5, chosen at checkout - Targeting granularity: country only
- Does not consume the traffic pool: billed per IP-lease, on a separate ledger from dynamic residential gigabytes
Expiry comes from whichever lease the resource is actually issued with; when no explicit lease is returned, it is the issue time plus the lease days.
Renewal extends, it doesn't reassign
This is datacenter's practical advantage over static residential:
Renewal also differs from purchase in implementation: renewal does not decrement country inventory — only new purchases do. Renewal targets the original resource record itself, so it doesn't depend on stock being available.
Inventory and ordering
Identical to static residential:
- Ordering atomically decrements that country's inventory
- Checkout expiry or payment failure → inventory added back, reservation marked
released - Successful payment → available IP credentials matched from inventory FIFO per country, one resource record per IP
Unpaid orders expire after 30 minutes by default.
Using it
You receive a complete host:port:username:password. Use it directly, with no options to compose:
curl -x http://DC_USER:DC_PASS@DC_HOST:DC_PORT https://api.ipify.org
Where it fits
Good fit
- Fixed egress for API calls and internal services
- Monitoring and availability probing
- Scraping where residential attribution doesn't matter and stability and speed do
- Anything that needs the exit IP whitelisted with a third party
Poor fit
- E-commerce, social media, ticketing and other targets sensitive to datacenter IPs — use static residential or dynamic residential
- Rotating through many different IPs — per-IP pricing doesn't work out; use dynamic residential
Positioning against the other lines
| Datacenter | Static residential | Dynamic residential | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP attribution | Hosting ASN | Residential ISP | Residential ISP |
| Fixed IP | Yes | Yes | No (session stickiness) |
| Lease | 7/30/90 days | 30 days | N/A |
| Renewal keeps IP | Yes | Requires a new order | N/A |
| Targeting | Country | Country | Country → ASN |
| Latency | Best | Average | Average |
| Price | Lowest | High | Per GB |