Datacenter proxy
A proxy hosted in a commercial datacentre. Fast and inexpensive, but easily identified as non-residential.
A datacenter proxy exits from an address owned by a hosting provider or cloud platform. These are the fastest and cheapest proxies available, and the easiest for a destination to recognise.
#Why they are easy to spot
Address ranges are registered to their owning organisation and published. Anyone can look up the ASN behind an address and see that it belongs to a hosting company. Many filtering services maintain lists of hosting ranges and treat traffic from them with immediate suspicion.
#Where they work well
- Targets that do not check the network origin at all.
- High-volume work where speed matters more than disguise.
- Internal testing, monitoring and availability checks.
- Any task where being identified as automated is acceptable.
#Shared and dedicated
A shared datacenter proxy is used by several customers at once, so its reputation depends on strangers. A dedicated one is yours alone, costs more, and behaves predictably.
#Commonly confused with
ISP proxies are also hosted in datacentres, but their addresses are registered to consumer ISPs, which changes how they are classified.