Cross-border foreign trade has been a hot industry in recent years. Among the many tools that help cross-border overseas expansion, proxy IP is also a strong guarantee. It can not only help companies expand into larger regional markets and conduct market research more smoothly, but more importantly, in cross-border platform businesses such as TikTok, Amazon, Ebay, Instagram, Etsy, etc., it also plays a very important role in ensuring account security and solving the "account blocking" troubles for cross-border players!

Let’s talk specifically about what kind of proxy IP should be used and how to distinguish it!

1. What proxy IP do cross-border platforms use?

1. Residential

Simply put, the broadband we use at home, such as China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, belongs to this type of network. The IP provided by this type of proxy belongs to the ISP (Internet Service Provider). When we access the Internet, our IP address belongs to this category. Generally speaking, this type of IP has a higher real person rate. Because the probability of being marked as a commercial IP segment is low, the probability of being blocked by the target website is also very small. It is more suitable for cross-border platform account maintenance and long-term operation business.

Of course, due to the limitation of civilian bandwidth, the proxy service provided by this type of IP also makes it slower to access the Internet.

2. Data Center

What is a data center? To put it simply, a service provider buys some servers in a computer room, opens IPs and ports on them, and provides them to customers. The IPs provided by this type of service belong to IDC (Internet Data Center).

They come from secondary companies such as data centers, and do not belong to civilian network operators. Compared with residential proxies, they are faster, more stable, and cheaper, but because of their more frequent and complex commercial nature (such as crawlers, spam, network attacks, etc.), they are more likely to be blocked. This type of proxy is more suitable for short-term business: such as e-commerce evaluation, market research, data collection, etc.

2. How to determine the proxy IP type?

There are many residential proxy providers on the market that have a bad reputation, but actually provide data center proxies. So when using the proxy IP, we can test and judge it ourselves. The following is a detailed step-by-step guide. I will use Kookeey's static data center as a demonstration for everyone.

1. Obtaining agent information

2. IP test website

3. Can I build my own dedicated network?

Of course you can, but it is not recommended. Apart from the compliance issues, you need to solve many problems. First, you need to understand the deployment and construction technology; second, you must be able to find a stable and reliable residential IP and channel; and then you have to pay a considerable operation and maintenance cost to ensure the smooth operation of the network; the comprehensive cost is less than 10,000 yuan per month, and such a threshold is not suitable for ordinary players.

A more cost-effective method is to find an agency service provider, such as kookeey, Brightdata, Oxylabs, etc.

Kookeey is an agent service provider that is more suitable for cross-border e-commerce platforms and social media operations. There are four specific types of agents for cross-border business scenarios. It can be integrated with cross-border fingerprint browsers to ensure accurate account positioning while ensuring IP isolation.

Having said so much, let's summarize what our cross-border proxy IP wants:

• A sufficiently clean IP, the fewer people who have used it, the better;
• It is better to use a residential IP that is closer to a real person, rather than a data center IP;
• The stability and speed are enough for video playback, and I don’t want to waste money on other aspects.
• Make it as simple and affordable as possible to use.

With these requirements in mind, you can test more purposefully and feel more at ease before investing in the business. If you haven’t tried it yet, you might as well get a trial and you will discover a new world!