Dedicated Datacenter Proxies Quick Start Guide

Datacenter proxies are the fastest and most reliable type of proxies. Companies use them for email and brand protection, market research, and to secure their intellectual property. They are also common among cybersecurity professionals. 

Here you will find all the main information that will help you start using Oxylabs Dedicated Datacenter Proxies quickly.

What you get with Oxylabs Dedicated Datacenter Proxies

Market-leading proxy pool with over 2 million IPs from 188 locations and nearly 8000 subnets.

Exceptional performance – fast IPs with 99.9% uptime.

Live support and dedicated account managers – get 24/7 support via email at support@oxylabs.io.

Technical features

Dedicated IPs – Oxylabs Dedicated Datacenter Proxies are never shared between multiple users at the same time, which means better speed and performance.

Unlimited number targets, bandwidth, and concurrent sessions – no boundaries for your scraping projects.

Proxy rotator for session control – rotate proxies or keep the same IP address whenever needed, and improve your success rate.

Datacenter Proxy API – replace your IPs from a specific subnet in your existing proxy list to avoid blocks and blacklisted IPs.

Pricing

Choose from different plans and pay monthly, or pick a yearly subscription and save 10% every month! Our Dedicated Datacenter Proxy subscription plans:

1. Starter (100 IPs in the US, or 60 IPs in the rest of the world*)

2. Business (500 or 285 IPs*)

3. Corporate (1,000 or 577 IPs*)

4. Enterprise (Over 5,000 or over 2,500 IPs*)

* Price per IP and number of IPs may vary based on IP location, target, and other factors.

Each plan includes unlimited bandwidth and domains, 99.9% uptime, and low response time. To learn more about each subscription plan, visit the pricing page.

Using Dedicated Datacenter Proxies

Oxylabs Dedicated Datacenter proxies use basic HTTP protocol. In order to start using Dedicated Datacenter proxies, you will need to get a username, password and link to your IPs list from the account manager or support team at support@oxylabs.io.

Proxy lists

Once you purchase Oxylabs Dedicated Datacenter IPs, you will receive two URLs to your proxy list from your account manager or our support staff. All you need to do is open one of the URLs in your browser (you will be prompted to enter your login credentials) or make a GET request with your credentials to one of the links. The link which starts with https://proxy.oxylabs.io/key/{key} will provide you IPs list in plain text:

While URL which starts with https://api.oxylabs.io/v1/proxies/lists/{uuid} will give you access to IPs list formatted in JSON:

Sample output:

Please note: 

• If you are using the Rotation Machine (VM), you cannot whitelist the IPs yourself. However, we can do it for you, if you provide us with the list of IP addresses that will be used to connect to the proxies. After we whitelist the IPs, you will no longer need any login credentials to access the proxies.

• If you are using whitelisted IPs to access the proxies, you will need to use port 65432. For the rotation machine (VM), the port remains 60000.

Rotation machine (VM)

Oxylabs Proxy Rotator, or rotation machine (Virtual Machine), is an additional feature that allows getting higher success rates and saving your in-house resources. Proxy Rotator is a great feature that rotates your IP addresses, or lets you keep one IP address for a certain time. In other words, you can control your sessions depending on your needs.
Find out more about the benefits of Datacenter Proxy Rotator or read how to use this feature.

Datacenter Proxy API

Oxylabs Datacenter Proxy API is an additional feature that allows you to control your proxy pool yourself. With it, you can replace your IPs from a specific subnet in your existing proxy list. This helps to replace flagged or blacklisted IPs more easily. 

Check our documentation for more information on how to use the Datacenter Proxy API.

Integrations

SwitchyOmega

SwitchyOmega is a powerful and reliable proxy manager that works with many popular browsers. From our own experience, it is one of the best proxy plugins. We highly recommend using SwitchyOmega with our proxies as well. To do that, first, you need to get the plugin. For Chrome, click here, for Firefox, click here. Once you have it installed, follow the steps:

1. Open SwitchyOmega options:
   

2. Click New profile….

3. Give this new profile a name, choose Proxy Profile type, and click Create.

4. Change Protocol to HTTP. Under Server, enter one of the proxies you have purchased from us. Under Port, add 60000 if you are using username:password authentication method, and 65432 if you are using whitelisted IPs.

5. Next, click the lock button on the right. Fill in your Username and Password. Click Save changes. 

Note: If you have whitelisted your IP, skip step 5.

6. Click Apply changes

7. For the final step, click on SwitchyOmega icon and choose your newly configured proxy. 

1. Open FoxyProxy Options.

2. Click Add.

3. In IP address, DNS name, server name fields, enter one of the proxies.

4. In Port field, you should enter port. If you use user/pass authentication, port is 60000. If you have whitelisted your IP, port is 65432.

5. In Username (optional) field, you should enter your username. If you have whitelisted your IP, leave this field blank as the plugin will authorize through it and ignore everything you write in this field.

6. In Password (Optional) field, you should enter your password. If you have whitelisted your IP and wish to authorise through it, leave this field blank.

7. After filling in all fields, press Save.

8. In order to get all of your requests running through this setup, you must press on FoxyProxy plugin icon (1) and click on Use proxy Proxy for all URLs (ignore patterns) (2).

If you would like to learn more, read our blog post about setting up FoxyProxy.

Proxifier

To use our Dedicated Datacenter Proxies with Proxifier, follow these simple steps:

1. Open the Proxifier app.

2. Add proxies. Click on Proxies (1). Click Add (2).
   

3. In the following window, enter the required information. IP Address (1), Port (2), which for username/pass authentication is 60000 and 65432 for whitelisted IP authentication, select HTTPS (3) protocol. In the authentication box, click Enable (4) and enter the provided Username (5) and Password (6). Do not forget to add customer- at the beginning of your username. 

If you have whitelisted your devices, do not click on Enable, your authentication will be done without username/password. If you wish, you can enable Appear as Web Browser option. Click OK.

4. You will be prompted with a window asking if you want Proxifier to use this proxy by default? This means that this setup will be used for all of your browsers. It is up to you to decide.
If you select Yes, you are done setting up.  If you wish to use proxies just on a particular browser, follow next steps.

5. Click on Rules (1) and then click Add… (2).

6. Click + (1) button to add applications that you want to use proxy settings. Select the browser that you want to use these proxy settings on and click on it. Finally, you have to change Action (2). Click on it and select your created proxy.

This is it, all of your requests, while using the browser which you defined in your rules of Proxifier, will be sent via proxies.

Find out more about setting up Proxifer with our proxies.

GitHub

Oxylabs GitHub is the place to go for tutorials on how to scrape websites, use our tools, implement products or integrate them using the most popular programming languages (e.g. C#, GoLang, Java, NodeJs, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.).

Oxylabs® dashboard for Dedicated Datacenter Proxies

In the Oxylabs dashboard, you can find everything you need to manage your Oxylabs products. In the case of Datacenter Proxies, this is where you will find this essential information: usage statistics, proxy lists, and IP whitelisting.

Statistics

The “Statistics” section shows detailed information on how much traffic you have used, how many requests you made, and how many errors you faced day-to-day. You can additionally see detailed statistics (traffic you used and requests you sent) by your requested targets or your owned subnets. For more precise information, you can filter usage statistics for any selected period.  

1. Here is an example of how usage statistics appear in the Datacenter Proxy dashboard:

2. By clicking “By Target”, you will be able to see the required usage statistics by your target websites.

3. By clicking “By Subnets”, you will be able to see the required usage statistics by your subnets.

Proxy lists

The “Proxy Lists” section shows how many proxies you have and what datacenter proxies are dedicated to you. You can choose the format of how you want to see your proxy lists: plain text or JSON. From these lists, you can also select which proxy you want to use for your tasks.