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title: "Datacenter proxy"
url: https://proxy.wiki/glossary/datacenter-proxy/
type: Glossary Term
author: "proxy.wiki editorial"
published: 2026-08-19
updated: 2026-08-19
site: proxy.wiki
topics: ["Proxy fundamentals"]
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# 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](/glossary/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](/glossary/isp-proxy/) are also hosted in datacentres, but their addresses are registered to consumer ISPs, which changes how they are classified.