High-Speed Datacenter Proxies for Every Scale

To ensure stability of services and prevent any potential traffic abuse, Oxylabs limits the concurrent sessions of provided Datacenter Proxies (per IP). The available concurrent sessions depend on the amount of traffic used per 1 Datacenter proxy during a billing cycle:

Until 50 GBs of usage per 1 Datacenter proxy in a month is reached, available concurrent sessions are limited to 100 concurrent sessions per 1 purchased Datacenter proxy (e.g., purchasing 100 Datacenter proxies means that 10,000 concurrent sessions will be available until 5,000 GB of usage is reached);

If 50 GBs of usage per 1 Datacenter proxy is reached, available concurrent sessions are reduced to 10 sessions per 1 Datacenter proxy for the remainder of the billing cycle (e.g., purchasing 100 Datacenter proxies and reaching 5,000 GB of usage means that 1,000 concurrent sessions will be available until the end of the current billing cycle).

Oxylabs, in order to ensure stability of the provision of services and prevent any potential traffic abuse, limits the concurrent sessions of Dedicated Datacenter Proxies. The available concurrent sessions depend on the amount of traffic used per Datacenter proxy during a billing cycle:

Each Datacenter proxy IP allows up to 100 concurrent sessions with a monthly data threshold of 100 GB per IP.

Once the 100 GB threshold per IP is reached within a billing cycle, the concurrent sessions for that IP will be reduced to 10 for the remainder of the billing cycle.

Your total threshold scales with your IP count. For example, with 100 Datacenter proxies, you'll have access to 10,000 concurrent sessions until you reach 10,000 GB of total usage.

Most users experience no service disruption under this Fair Usage Policy due to the generous 100 GB per IP allowance. If you require higher data thresholds, purchasing additional IPs will proportionally increase your available data and concurrent session limits. If you need any assistance, feel free to contact us at support@oxylabs.io.

Like many other proxy types, a datacenter proxy server is an entry point between a gadget accessing the internet and the website it’s trying to access. When accessing the internet, the IP address belonging to the device gets temporarily replaced by an IP address leased from a data center.

It's in the name – shared proxy pool is available for many users simultaneously, while private proxies are available for one user only. Shared proxies tend to be cheaper and are often priced per internet traffic usage, and dedicated proxies are usually priced per dedicated IPs. 

The main difference between datacenter and residential proxies is the source of their IP addresses. 

Residential proxies have an IP address that is provided by an ISP and belong to real users. As a result, residential proxies appear on websites as ordinary internet users, making it less likely that a proxy user will be blocked.

Conversely, datacenter proxies are created in large quantities in data centers and are not associated with an ISP. As a result, the size of the datacenter proxy IP pool is significantly larger. This kind of proxy is less expensive, but it’s also more vulnerable to IP blocks. 

However, if you buy datacenter IPs from a reputable datacenter proxy provider, such as Oxylabs Dedicated Datacenter Proxies, this won’t be the case. You can read our blog for more information about the differences between datacenter and residential proxies.

Sharing proxies with other users allows proxy providers to cut the cost of server maintenance. In turn, they can offer better pricing for the end-user.

ISP proxies have characteristics of both datacenter and residential proxy servers. Just like datacenter proxies, they’re hosted on an unlimited bandwidth proxy server in a data center. Nevertheless, they have residential IPs owned by an ISP, and datacenter proxies don't.

Using a data center proxy server or any other proxy type for web scraping activity may be legal in cases where it is done without breaching any laws regarding the source targets or data itself.

There are different types of proxies, the most common ones, in terms of their origin, being residential and datacenter proxies. Some of the proxy server IP addresses you might see online were created for marketing based reasons rather than actually being a separate technical type. Nevertheless, some of them offer optimizations for specific uses or other improvements.

We offer $5 welcome credit to try out our Datacenter Proxies. Simply, create a free account and it will be added to your balance immediately – no commitment required to start testing products. Please bear in mind that our free credits are available only once. Later on, to use Datacenter Proxies monthly, you'll need to choose a plan.

Datacenter proxies can indeed be detectable because their IP addresses don’t originate from an internet service provider. A common detection method involves identifying and blocking requests from known datacenter IP ranges. Despite this, datacenter proxies are still highly effective for scraping low to medium difficulty websites, especially when used with advanced scraping techniques. Additionally, the detectability of datacenter IP addresses can vary depending on whether it's a shared datacenter proxy or dedicated datacenter proxy. For more information, refer to this article on Dedicated IP vs. Shared IP.

Yes. You can top up your traffic through the Oxylabs dashboard. Step-by-step instructions are available in our Help Center, under the “Add more traffic” section of the Proxies 101: Navigating the Dashboard article.

Fraud detection platforms assess IP addresses for potential financial risk based on historical behavior and network characteristics. While these scores matter for security purposes, they don't necessarily reflect an IP's effectiveness for legitimate data collection.

As a premium provider, Oxylabs maintains exceptionally low fraud scores through strict ethical sourcing standards, comprehensive KYC procedures, and clear usage policies. This proactive approach ensures our proxy pools deliver consistently high success rates while maintaining trust and reliability across all use cases.