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I use paid service proxy bonanza ($12/mo for 2 IPs), and build my own as well using squid ($5/mo DigitalOcean).


You pay more per IP than per server!? Why don't you get 3 DO instances then?


I can't speak for that particular service, but in other similar ones I've looked at and used in the past, you're paying for a certain number of IPs _at a given time_.

So, for instance, they have a pool of servers that have 1000 IPs available. Your account allows connections to go out over 2 of those at a time. If something happens (like one gets banned by whatever service you're scraping), you can get a different set of 2 IPs and keep moving.

While you're still paying a relatively high price for what you're consuming (predominantly bandwidth in this case), you're paying for the flexibility.


The paid service has IPs from a lot of other countries not covered by DO :(




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