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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: http or socks5, 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:

  1. Ordering atomically decrements that country's inventory
  2. Checkout expiry or payment failure → inventory added back, reservation marked released
  3. 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

DatacenterStatic residentialDynamic residential
IP attributionHosting ASNResidential ISPResidential ISP
Fixed IPYesYesNo (session stickiness)
Lease7/30/90 days30 daysN/A
Renewal keeps IPYesRequires a new orderN/A
TargetingCountryCountryCountry → ASN
LatencyBestAverageAverage
PriceLowestHighPer GB

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