Enterprise Dedicated Datacenter Proxies Quick Start Guide

Oxylabs’ Enterprise Dedicated Datacenter Proxies, purchased through the Sales Team, offer complete ownership of a proxy IP along with access to the market’s largest proxy pool, exceptional speeds, unlimited bandwidth with fair usage policy, and the largest selection of proxy locations.

In this guide, you’ll find all the fundamental information that’ll get you on track to start using Oxylabs’ Dedicated Datacenter Proxies.

Setting up Enterprise Dedicated Datacenter Proxies

To start off, head over to the Oxylabs dashboard and register an account. Once you purchase Dedicated Datacenter Proxies through the Sales Team or sign up for the free trial, you’ll receive an email with proxy credentials from your Account Manager or our Support Team.

Receiving a proxy list

The easiest way to receive your Dedicated Datacenter Proxy list is by logging in to the Oxylabs dashboard. Then, on the left-hand side menu, choose Proxy lists, which will give you the option to view your list in plain text format:

Plain text example:

Another way to retrieve your proxy list is through the API. Visit our documentation to find further guidelines.

Making a basic cURL request

Follow the steps below to make a request using a proxy in cURL:

1. Pick an IP address from the acquired list.

2. Form the cURL request and specify your chosen IP in the request parameters.

You can copy this code below:

curl -x 1.2.3.4:60000 -U user1:pass1 https://ip.oxylabs.io/location

3. Run the code in a terminal or any other setup to send a GET request to the https://ip.oxylabs.io/location website, which will send back the IP address of your request.

For examples in other programming languages, visit our documentation. 

State and City targeting

If you want to target a specific state or city, contact your Account Manager or our Customer Support Team to receive IP addresses from the exact locations you require.

Proxy rotation and sticky sessions

Session management is available with Oxylabs’ free Proxy Rotator that rotates your IP addresses or lets you keep one for a specified timeframe. In other words, you can control your proxy sessions depending on your needs.

To have Proxy Rotator enabled for your Dedicated Datacenter Proxies, please contact your Account Manager or our Support Team.

Proxy rotation using Proxy Rotator

Proxy Rotator uses a single endpoint for requests. Below you can find a cURL code sample that makes a request to https://ip.oxylabs.io/location. Note that the vm.oxylabs.io domain is just an example only:

curl -x vm.oxylabs.io:60000 -U username:password https://ip.oxylabs.io/location

Sticky sessions using Proxy Rotator

To keep the same IP address for subsequent requests, first, you’ll need to know the serial number of the proxy IP you want to keep. You can achieve this by looking at the proxy list that you receive from us, since Proxy Rotator uses it to rotate IPs. There, proxies are numbered sequentially from top to bottom, starting with s1 at the top. For instance:

1.2.3.1 - s1
1.2.3.2 - s2
...
1.2.3.49 - s49
1.2.3.50 - s50

Once you have this information, you can add the --proxy-header "Proxy-Server: sXXX" header to your request, where sXXX is the number of the proxy, for example, s5 or s2541. Here’s a basic cURL example:

The same query is presented below:

curl -x vm.oxylabs.io:60000 -U user1:pass1 https://ip.oxylabs.io/location --proxy-header "Proxy-Server: s10"

You can find code samples in different programming languages and more information in our documentation and GitHub repository.

Protocols

By default, the HTTP protocol is enabled for Dedicated Datacenter Proxies. If you want to activate SOCKS5 protocol for your account, contact our Customer Support Team via live chat or email, or your Account Manager, and they’ll assist you.

Response Codes

These are the most common response codes you can get while using our Datacenter Proxies. If you receive any other response code, please contact your Account Manager for more information.

2. You can filter the statistics by targets, subnets, IPs, users, and countries. There are also additional filters for each tab: date range, IP, subnet, target, or user. On this page, you’ll also find the amount of encountered errors.