TierProxy blog: practical proxy guides
Plain-English guides for people who buy and run proxies: how residential and datacenter IPs differ, how rotating and sticky sessions work, which protocol to pick, how much bandwidth a job really uses, and how to test a proxy before you depend on it.
Every guide links to the standards, documentation and datasets its facts come from.
Residential vs datacenter proxies: how to choose
Start with datacenter proxies and move to residential only when your target refuses them. Here is how sites read an IP's owner, what each type costs, and how to test.
Comparison · November 2, 2026 · 10 min read
Rotating vs sticky proxies: how proxy sessions work
When to rotate the exit IP and when to pin it with a session id, how connection reuse quietly defeats rotation, and how to design retries and workers around both.
Guides · November 2, 2026 · 11 min read
HTTP vs SOCKS5 proxy: what changes and which to use
Use HTTP unless you need non-web TCP, UDP, or software that only has a SOCKS field. Here is what actually differs underneath, and where the choice makes no difference.
Guides · November 2, 2026 · 11 min read
How much proxy bandwidth do you need? Pages per GB and cost
A 10,000-page job is about 22 GB in a full browser and about a third of a GB as plain HTML. Here is the arithmetic, a way to measure your own target, and how to cut the bill.
Pricing · November 2, 2026 · 10 min read
How to test a proxy: six checks, in order, with commands you can paste
A short routine for new proxy credentials: compare your direct IP with the proxied one, confirm protocol and country, look for leaks, time several requests, then try your real target.
Guides · November 2, 2026 · 13 min read