What is the difference between a residential IP proxy and a data center IP proxy?

In the Internet industry, IP addresses, as the most basic resource, play a wide range of roles in crawler collection, public opinion observation, price monitoring and other businesses. But did you know? IP addresses are actually divided into many types. Our individual consumers or home users pull broadband through major operators and are dynamic IPs. This type of IP residence can be classified by source IP or home IP. The IP corresponding to the computer room, the IP of the computer room, company, cloud server, etc. Of course, the addresses we see in the market are basically from the data center, that is, the computer room IP.

Then, what is the difference between a data center IP and a home residential IP?

1. Residential IP Proxy

Residential IP is the IP address assigned to individual users by the ISP (Internet Service Provider) or ADSL provider at their actual residence. WIFI consists of real network users, and exclusive residential IP is the real user device IP, which is exactly the same as the IP used by ordinary netizens.

Compared with computer rooms, residential IPs have the characteristics of non-consecutive numbers, scattered distribution, and consistent distribution with ordinary users, which has a higher business success rate. Quilt Ban has huge advantages in crawler collection, replenishment business, and SEO, which require a large number of short-term dynamic IP services, but the stability will be slightly worse and the number of IPs is smaller.

2. Computer room IP proxy

The English name is DatacenterIP, also known as data center proxy, where the data center is the computer room center. The server has multiple IPs with fixed and stable online IPs and relatively cheap prices. However, the computer room IPs have consecutive numbers and unbalanced regional distribution. The IPs have high stability and long online time, making them more suitable for hanging up, downloading, disguised access and other businesses that require long-term online services.

So the question is, if it is for businesses such as crawler collection, public opinion observation, and price monitoring, what are the disadvantages of using the data center IP?

Because the target server can identify your IP, when the target server identifies your IP as the computer room IP, it means that you use a proxy, but because the computer room IP is also highly anonymous, the target server does not know your real IP, but the target server can choose to deny your access, which will cause you to be unable to obtain data. This is a situation when the target server detects that your IP is the computer room IP. When you use a proxy, you think you are not a normal user, but the target server does not know, but returns to processing information, that is, the target server wants you to see the information, thinking that the data you crawled has been processed. Is this situation terrible?

At this time, the advantage of residential IP comes out. The target IP server cannot detect it, the target server cannot distinguish between normal user requests and program requests, cannot block your request IP, and the processed data cannot be sent to you. This is the advantage of residential IP!

In our observation, the use of residential IP has higher availability due to residential reasons, and can obtain more accurate and pollution-free data. The IP distributed structure can often be used with high concurrency, which greatly improves work efficiency. Therefore, enterprises need to use IP proxies and must choose appropriate IP proxies based on their own business. For now, the use of residential IP proxies will be much wider than that of IP proxies in computer rooms!

Of course, the computer room IP still has its own advantages, such as higher stability, longer online time, etc.