If classified according to the owner or sending address, proxies can be divided into three categories: data center IP, residential IP, and mobile IP.

In this article, we will understand the principles of data center IP and their advantages and disadvantages so that we can choose the proxy that suits us.

1. What is a data center IP proxy?

The data center IP is an IP proxy owned and managed by the data center, commonly known as the computer room IP. This type of company is a secondary company and the real IP address is not provided by the operator. The residential IP is an IP address assigned by the ISP, so the data center can use its own IP address to better manage the speed and security of the traffic.

2. How does data center IP work?

When you send a request to a website using a datacenter proxy, the request goes through the datacenter proxy server. The server then strips off your local address and replaces it with another IP address before sending the request to the website. After processing the request, the response is sent to the proxy, which then forwards it to you.

That is to say, it plays the role of a transit base station.

Typically, because the local IP address is removed from the request, the website will not know that the request originated from you, and the URL will think that the request came from the proxy server, thus shielding the local address.

3. Advantages of Data Center IP

Although data center IP has many limitations and is not friendly to websites with strict detection, it is still very popular among cross-border marketers due to its relatively low price. Let's take a look at its advantages:

1. Fast speed

Datacenter proxies are much faster than residential proxies because most of them are hosted on high-performance servers that can provide you with Internet speeds of up to 1 Gbps.

2. Low price

Data center proxies are cheaper than residential proxies, even 2 times cheaper, and the price difference is quite large. There is also a type of ipv6 proxy that is even cheaper, which can be said to be the lowest-priced static proxy on the market.

3. Large quantity

The infrastructure used to build a data center proxy does not require much, because developing a data center proxy does not require an Internet service provider, so there are more data center providers on the market, and the regional coverage and quantity are larger, which is one of the reasons why the price of data center IPs is relatively low.

4. Disadvantages of Data Center IP

1. Easily detected as a data center

Some complex websites will not use data center IPs. Their detection mechanism is more stringent and they will be identified as data center proxies because their IP range is not owned by the ISP but the data center. Such websites will have their requests intercepted and their accounts will be blocked. For example, the registration of streaming media/e-commerce platforms represented by Tiktok will be detected.