The Ultimate Solution for Scraping and Crawling
This article discusses how residential proxies can benefit businesses in their web scraping and crawling activities. Residential proxies offer numerous advantages, including avoidi...
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Most Commonly Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about residential proxies, datacenter proxies, and mobile proxies. If you cannot find the answer, contact our team at [email protected]
A proxy routes your traffic through a different IP address, masking your real location and identity. Proxies—whether residential proxies, datacenter proxies, or mobile proxies—help you bypass geo-restrictions, avoid blocks, and automate web scraping, ad verification, and social media management.
You get access to our pools of residential proxies (22M+ IPs), datacenter proxies (80K+ IPs), and mobile proxies (750K+ IPs) across 195+ countries. Connect through our gateways—each request gets a random IP by default (rotating proxies), or use sticky sessions to keep the same IP. Choose the location by country, city, or carrier. Texas, USA is excluded from our residential network.
We offer three proxy types: residential proxies (22M+ real home IPs), datacenter proxies (80K+ high-speed IPs), and mobile proxies (750K+ 5G/4G carrier IPs). All support HTTP and SOCKS5. You can access HTTP and HTTPS websites through our proxies. We do not support direct HTTPS connections to the proxy server itself.
Our residential proxies, datacenter proxies, and mobile proxies can access almost all websites. A small number of domains are blocked for legal or anti-abuse reasons. We enforce a strict Acceptable Use Policy. Contact us to verify if your target domains are allowed before purchasing.
Our proxy gateways support
username:password credentials and IP whitelist. Both work for residential proxies, datacenter proxies, and mobile proxies. Set up via the dashboard or API.Yes. We offer a full REST API for managing proxy users, bandwidth, and geo-targeting. Use it to integrate residential proxies, datacenter proxies, or mobile proxies into your automation. Documentation at docs.databay.com and Swagger.
Speed depends on the proxy type. Datacenter proxies are fastest (sub-500ms latency, high throughput). Residential proxies average around 1.2 seconds as they use real home connections. Mobile proxies vary by carrier and location. All types support unlimited concurrent connections.
Unfortunately, we no longer offer free trials at this time, however we have a cheap test package that lets you test our proxies.
Our proxy servers calculate data usage based on the total volume of individual packets processed by the server. The sum of these bytes, for both incoming and outgoing packets, represents the total data consumed.
Yes, we have special offers for resellers, as well as an API that allows you to manage your Databay account in real-time. Please Contact Us on our LiveChat.
