Shared datacenter proxies: lots of IPs at the lowest unit price

01What is a shared datacenter proxy?

A shared datacenter proxy is a server IP in a datacenter that several customers use together. Because the cost of each IP is split, it has the lowest price per IP of any ProxyToo product.

The price is $0.0163 per IP per month, and you order from 10 to 5,000 IPs in steps of 10. You can pick from 18 countries with datacenter IPs, which makes it easy to look at public data in several markets at once.

What matters here is the number of addresses, more than the character of any one address. Spread requests thinly across many IPs, each IP carries a small share, and wide sets of pages come in quickly and evenly.

Shared proxies connect the same way as every other product, over HTTP or SOCKS5. If you already run a scraper, change the proxy values and scale it up as it is.

02How do shared proxies work between customers?

The IPs you receive stay in your list for the whole order, and other customers use the same addresses too. At any moment, your requests and another customer's requests may leave from the same IP.

This model is built for collecting a large number of IPs. For the price of one dedicated IP you get more than 38 shared IPs, so the same budget lets you spread requests much more widely.

Give jobs that need a reputation you control alone, such as allowlisting or long logged in sessions, to dedicated datacenter proxies, and give wide spreading jobs to shared ones. That way you get the strengths of both.

Results from shared IPs are best read as an average across many addresses. Tune your job on the overall flow of the whole list, more than on any single address, and the shared model shows its full strength.

03What are shared datacenter proxies used for?

A classic use is collecting public prices and stock levels from many shops on a schedule. The more products you track, the more it pays to spread across IPs, and the low unit price of shared proxies keeps that affordable.

They also suit crawling public listings, catalogs and news pages on sites that welcome automated access. When you build a new scraper or raise its concurrency, you can run tests close to real scale for very little money.

Mixing IPs from several countries also lets you compare how fast and how correctly your own site opens in each region. Even 10 IPs per country give you an even spread of regional results.

Scheduled collection often runs several times a day at fixed times. Split your IP list into groups for each run, and every round is handled by a fresh set of addresses for a smooth overall flow.

• Scheduled price and stock collection
• Crawling catalogs and listings
• Load testing scrapers
• Speed and display checks by country
• Bulk downloads of open data

04Shared vs dedicated datacenter vs IPv6 vs residential proxies: how do they compare?

Shared and dedicated proxies use the same server network IPs, so response speed and connection setup are the same. The difference is who uses the IP, dedicated at $0.63 per IP per month for you alone, shared at $0.0163 split between customers.

IPv6 proxies are also cheap per IP, and they work on sites that accept IPv6. Shared datacenter proxies use IPv4 addresses, so they also cover IPv4 only sites, and their price per IP is even lower.

Residential proxies are home line IPs billed per GB of traffic. Sites that screen visitors closely suit residential best, while large volumes of public pages are most economical on shared datacenter proxies, billed by IP count whatever the traffic.

In short, shared datacenter proxies give you many IPv4 addresses at the lowest price. When you want the widest IPv4 coverage for a given budget, they are the natural first choice.

• Shared datacenter, IPv4 server IPs at the lowest price per IP.
• Dedicated datacenter, a server IP that is yours alone.
• IPv6 proxies, made for sites that accept IPv6.
• Residential proxies, home line IPs billed per GB.

05How do I bulk order shared datacenter proxies?

Open Buy products in the dashboard, choose Shared datacenter, then set the country, IP count and period. The count runs from 10 to 5,000 in steps of 10, so 10, 100 or 1,000 IPs are each one choice away.

Choose a period of 1, 3, 6 or 12 months. For long running work such as scheduled collection, ordering a longer period up front leaves you free to focus on the job itself.

Orders are paid straight from your balance, and My orders shows them moving from Activating to Active. If an order is cancelled or refunded, the amount returns to your balance for use on any other product.

To split work by market, place a separate order for each country. Every order shows its own status and period, so your IP groups per market stay neatly organized.

• Choose Shared datacenter in Buy products.
• Pick the country.
• Set the IP count in steps of 10.
• Choose the period and place the order.

06How much do shared datacenter proxies cost?

The formula is IP count x months x monthly price per IP. At the current price, 1,000 IPs for 1 month cost $16.30, and 500 IPs for 6 months cost $48.90.

The top up bonus stretches it further. A $100 top up earns a 20% bonus for a $120 balance, which covers the maximum of 5,000 IPs for 1 month at $81.50 and still leaves $38.50.

The price depends only on IP count and period. However many runs you make a day, the amount is fixed when you order, so you can raise collection frequency and stay on budget.

Top up bonuses follow the tiers $100 +20%, $200 +25%, $300 +30%, $500 +35%, $1,000 +40%, $3,000 +45%, $5,000 +50%, so larger amounts grow your balance more. Your balance never expires and works for every product, so whatever remains carries straight into next month's order or another product.

07Which sites are shared datacenter proxies best for?

Shared datacenter proxies are most efficient on public sites that welcome automated access, on your own services and on open data portals. You get many IPs at a low price along with the fast responses of server networks.

Jobs that need one address for long logins or an allowlist entry on a partner server are best served by dedicated datacenter proxies. Shops and social networks that expect home connections suit residential or mobile proxies.

If the target site accepts IPv6 and you need far more addresses, look at IPv6 proxies as well. One balance pays for every product, so a single top up covers a mix of products across your jobs.

Splitting one job across products also works well. Run the wide first pass on shared datacenter proxies and the careful second pass on residential, and you balance cost and results together.

08How do I set up and get the most from shared datacenter proxies?

In the dashboard, Create connection details gives you HTTP, SOCKS5, host:port:user:pass or curl format. The password field takes your access token, which starts with pt_.

Give your scraper a rotation order for your IP list. Move to the next IP on each request, rest any slow address for a while and retry through another IP, and the whole job keeps flowing evenly.

Because the addresses are shared, generous request gaps and respect for each site's terms improve results for everyone. Start with 10 IPs to confirm the flow, then add as many as you need for the best value.

Set your concurrency to match your IP count as well. Start with slightly fewer parallel connections than IPs, raise them gradually while watching responses, and even a job running on thousands of IPs flows steadily from the start. The larger the job grows, the more this habit lifts your results.

• Rotate through your IP list in order.
• Rest slow addresses for a while.
• Keep generous request gaps.
• Test with 10, then scale up.