SOCKS5
A protocol that relays arbitrary TCP and UDP connections without interpreting them, unlike an HTTP proxy which understands and can modify web requests.
Why it costs you money
Most scraping never needs it, and paying for it is common anyway. It matters when the traffic is not web traffic, which is the case for mail clients, game traffic and some automation tooling. If your work is HTTP requests, the HTTP endpoint is the same network at the same price.
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Related terms
- Ports vs IPsA numbered endpoint you connect to. On some providers a port is the billing unit, and it is not the same as an address.
- BackconnectOne gateway address that fans out to the whole pool behind it, so your code never handles an address list.
- Exit nodeThe address a target website actually sees. Everything before it in the chain is invisible to the site you are fetching.
- Datacenter proxyAn address belonging to a server in a datacenter. Far cheaper than residential, and the first thing a careful site blocks.
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