Glossary
Datacenter proxy
A proxy whose exit address is hosted in a datacenter and registered to a hosting company.
Fast and inexpensive, and easy for a site to recognise as non-residential. They suit targets that publish permissive access and workloads where speed and cost matter more than appearing as a household.
Further reading: Datacenter proxies.
Related terms
- Residential proxy
A proxy whose exit address is assigned by an internet provider to a household connection. - Autonomous system number (ASN)
The identifier of a network operator on the internet, such as a carrier, an ISP or a hosting company. - CIDR block
A range of addresses written as a prefix, for example a /24 holding 256 addresses.
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