The essential points from this guide -- each one is explained in detail below.
Datacenter IPs come from hosting providers and are cheap to provision in bulk.
They are the fastest proxy type with sub-10ms added latency.
Anti-bot systems can identify datacenter IP ranges and may block them on protected sites.
Best used for permissive targets, internal testing, and high-concurrency workloads.
Datacenter proxies are hosted on servers in commercial data centers (AWS, Google Cloud, Hetzner, OVH, etc.). The provider purchases or leases IP blocks from these hosting companies and routes your requests through them. Because the servers are purpose-built for high throughput, datacenter proxies offer the lowest latency and highest request-per-second capacity of any proxy type.
Shared datacenter proxies are used by multiple customers simultaneously. They cost less but carry reputation risk -- another user's abuse can get the IP banned. Dedicated (private) datacenter proxies are assigned exclusively to you. They cost more but offer clean IP reputation and consistent performance. At KnoxProxy, dedicated datacenter proxies start at $0.02/IP/day.
Choose datacenter proxies when your target does not aggressively block non-residential IPs (many APIs, data feeds, and smaller websites), when speed matters more than stealth, when your budget is limited and volume is high, or when you are testing your own infrastructure. For protected targets like major retailers or social platforms, switch to residential proxies.
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