I believe many Internet workers have encountered IP bans, such as web scraping projects, using a shared proxy server to make the first request to the website, but you received a ban. This is mostly due to your shared IP being disabled after being used by multiple people.

So what exactly are private proxies? Are they right for your situation? Here’s a detailed guide to private IP proxies.

1. What is a private agent?

A private proxy server usually refers to a proxy server IP address that is completely owned and used by one person. You do not share it with others, and you control how, where, and when it is used. Therefore, your project will no longer be affected by previous users using the same proxy IP to access the same website. That said, the exclusivity of a private proxy server can also range from full ownership to limited sharing, depending on the private proxy provider.

2. What types of private agents are there?

1. Dedicated Agent

As the name suggests, dedicated proxies give you exclusive rights to a proxy server IP address. You can think of it as 1 dedicated IP address – 1 user. When you purchase as many IPs as you need, you are the only person in the world who owns and has access to them.

Now, dedicated proxies can also come from different sources, namely data centers and residential home networks.

2. Dedicated Data Center Proxy

They originate from large data center facilities or cloud-based infrastructures where the IP addresses are not affiliated with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) but are owned by the companies that operate those data centers. This factor alone makes private data center proxies less reliable, as websites can see that the network requests are not coming from ISP-related addresses, indicating that there is no real Internet user behind them and it is likely a bot, such as a web scraper.

While this is true, datacenter proxies are still widely used in various use cases where the target server allows requests from datacenter IPs. So, with a dedicated datacenter proxy, you get unmatched speed and bandwidth, and full control over how, when, and where the proxy IPs are used.

3. Dedicated Residential Agent

There are also private residential proxies, often called static residential proxies or static ISP proxies. They have real residential IP addresses assigned by an ISP, but are hosted in a data center. This provides excellent anonymity, just like a residential proxy, and superior speed and bandwidth, just like a data center proxy.

Standard residential proxies may be the solution you need; however, their IP pools are shared by multiple users, which means you can use a residential IP address to access sites that have blocked that IP due to previous use. The solution? Static ISP proxies, where the IP address is reserved for just one user. This way, you have full control over your proxy, resulting in a higher success rate and reliability.

Advantages of using a private agent

1. Speed

Because you don't have to share network resources with many users when using a private proxy, your project can use all available network bandwidth and speed.

In a sense, with a private proxy, you get what you pay for. In contrast, this is not the case with shared proxies. Proxy providers will typically boost the overall speed and bandwidth of shared proxies, which will decrease for each user when shared between individuals.

2. Pure and exclusive

With a private proxy, you get a new IP address that has not been used before and is not shared with other users, or has a limited number of users. This increases reliability and a high level of IP trust, as each proxy IP has no previous website visit history, reducing the possibility of being blocked by a website due to previous interactions.

3. Better success rate

The exclusivity of a private proxy ensures that you are the only one who can control how and where the proxy IP is used, directly affecting the success rate of website access. This is closely related to the previous point, but there are other factors that affect the success rate.

For example, websites often limit the amount of requests that can be made from one IP address within a certain time frame. Therefore, private proxies can help you overcome IP rate limits because you can decide and control the number of requests that go through each proxy server. This cannot be determined when using shared proxies because you have no way of knowing how other proxy users are using their IPs.

4. Avoid IP blacklists

In fact, private proxies can better avoid IP blacklists because their use is controlled by one user. Of course, this still depends on whether that user takes the potential blacklist risks into account when using a proxy.

While a proxy server can't technically "wear out," its performance and reliability may wear out over time, depending on which sites are blocking it. This is especially true when multiple users are using the same proxy to access the same domain, increasing the likelihood of being blacklisted. As a result, over time you may find that a shared proxy is unable to access the sites you want to visit, especially popular sites like Google or Amazon, as past users may have already exhausted the proxy on such sites.

What are some use cases for private proxies?

Kookeey specializes in providing pure and exclusive private proxies. Private proxies are ideal for situations where excellent performance, reliability, and privacy are required. They are ideal for the following applications: web scraping, social media management on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, SEO monitoring for search engines such as Google, Bing, Yandex, etc., pricing and product monitoring, advertising verification, web scraping