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Notes from running proxies at scale

Guides, comparisons and the occasional post-mortem. Written by the people who operate the network, not a content team.

Why your checkout tasks keep failing

Monitoring and checkout have opposite requirements. How to tell a proxy problem from a fingerprint, timing or configuration problem.

05 Sept 2026

Proxies for ad verification

Datacentre IPs can show you a different auction than a real visitor sees. What geographic precision, clean IPs and sticky sessions are actually for.

05 Sept 2026

Best proxies for web scraping

Rotating residential for almost all scraping, ISP only for logged-in work. How much bandwidth you actually need, and the failures no proxy can fix.

05 Sept 2026

How to check proxy fraud scores

Fraud score is the most useful number for judging a proxy before buying at volume. How to read it, what counts as clean, and what it cannot tell you.

05 Sept 2026

Do sneaker sites detect ISP proxies?

Sometimes, and it depends on the site. What detection actually checks, which sites are hardest, and how to test a proxy before a drop rather than during one.

05 Sept 2026

Best ISP proxies for sneaker botting

ISP proxies win checkout tasks because the session survives and the connection is fast. Residential wins monitoring. Using one for both is why most tasks fail.

05 Sept 2026

Troubleshooting

Why your proxies suddenly return 407

A 407 almost always means one thing, and it is rarely a problem with the proxy itself.

04 Sept 2026

Guide

ISP, residential or mobile: which one does your job actually need?

The three proxy types are not interchangeable, and picking the wrong one is the most common reason a job that should work does not.

04 Sept 2026