What is a residential IP? What are the advantages of a residential IP?

Residential proxy IP refers to a proxy server provided through a residential network connection (referred to as: home broadband IP address, commonly found in computers and mobile phones). It uses the real IP address located in the residential network as the exit IP address of the proxy server. Unlike data center proxy IP, residential proxy IP is a home broadband IP resource directly allocated by the operator.

Why choose a residential IP? What are the advantages?

1. Wide range of business applications

The characteristics of residential IP are that there are many IPs and the validity period is short. Therefore, massive IPs have attracted much attention in big data business, and they are inaccessible to fields such as online marketing and e-commerce optimization. Therefore, the business applicability of residential IPs is wider.

2. High security

Because residential proxy IPs are real IP addresses, users connect through real devices, which makes them more anonymous and difficult to distinguish from ordinary users. Therefore, this highly anonymous proxy is often not directly detectable by websites, so it is relatively safe to use. Users can disguise their identities well to bypass the countermeasures of website servers and facilitate the development of various businesses.

3. Fast speed

The speed of residential proxy IP is relatively faster, because most of them are home broadband. Nowadays, the lowest bandwidth resource is tens of megabytes, and the largest is nearly a gigabit network. In addition, residential proxy IP providers will have a large number of IPs for users to use. Users can use the massive IP pool to send a large number of requests, greatly improving the user's business efficiency.

How to get or buy a residential IP?

1. Paid proxy IP: Directly purchase residential IP through a third-party proxy IP provider. This is currently the most direct, fastest and most convenient way. The security and stability of paid proxy IP in use can be effectively guaranteed, and the success rate of the business can also be greatly improved.

The purchasing method is very simple: according to your business needs, contact multiple agent IP vendors, request tests to test the quality and stability of the IP to see if it meets the business needs, and then decide which agent IP vendor to purchase.

2. Free proxy IP: Collect pure free proxy IP addresses through some free publishing sites or software. These IPs are basically HTTP transparent proxies, and they are not necessarily residential IP addresses. There are various security risks in their use. Therefore, it is not recommended here;