Proxy type · Rotating Proxies
Rotating Proxies
Rotating proxies assign a different exit IP per request or per timed session, spreading traffic across a whole pool so no single address hits a rate limit.
- Typical price
- Per GB or per request
- IP trust
- Depends on pool
- Best for
- Large-scale scraping · SERP harvesting · Price monitoring
Per-request vs timed rotation
Per-request rotation gives maximum IP diversity and suits stateless crawling. Timed rotation (sticky sessions of 1–30 minutes) keeps a single IP long enough to complete a login, a cart flow, or a paginated result set.
Choosing a rotation strategy
Match rotation to the target's rate limit, not to your crawl speed. A site allowing 30 requests per IP per hour needs one IP per 30 requests — rotating faster wastes pool and raises anomaly scores.
Backconnect gateways
Most rotating pools expose a single backconnect endpoint. You keep one host and port in your code; the provider swaps the exit node behind it, so rotation costs you zero engineering.
Advantages
- + Automatic IP rotation
- + Rate-limit avoidance
- + Huge effective pool
Trade-offs
- − Breaks logged-in sessions
- − Unpredictable geo per request
- − Per-GB billing
Rotating Proxies FAQ
Do rotating proxies break my login?+
Per-request rotation does. Use a sticky session token so the same exit IP is held for the duration of the authenticated flow.
How many IPs do I actually need?+
Divide your hourly request volume by the target's per-IP rate limit. That is your concurrency floor; anything beyond it is redundancy, not throughput.
