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Glossary

ISP proxy

Sellers call it static residential, and the name describes a paper record rather than a place. You get the speed of a rack and the registration of a household line, and you pay for the registration.

An ISP proxy is a static exit address registered to a consumer internet provider while the machine behind it stands in a datacenter.

Two answers to one question

Ask who owns the address and the public record names a consumer provider. Ask where the machine is and the answer is a rack with an uplink.

Both are true at once. A provider sells a block of its consumer addresses to a hosting company, and the hosting company rents them out one at a time.

  • The record says household

    The first lookup a site makes returns a consumer provider rather than a hosting company.

  • The machine says rack

    Response times, uptime and the absence of an evening slowdown all belong to a server room.

  • The address stays put

    One address for as long as you rent it, which is what separates this from a rotating pool.

What the price buys

Billing follows the datacenter model: a monthly price per address and traffic you stop counting, rather than a few dollars a gigabyte.

  • One address per month

    Dearer than a plain hosting address and far cheaper than a household line for the same amount of work.

  • Speed of a server room

    The line behind the proxy is fat, so pages load without the pauses a shared mobile channel gives you.

  • Stability day to day

    An account signing in from the same address every morning is the pattern a long lived account wants.

What the registration proves

It proves who the address is registered to, and that is a record rather than a verdict. A platform weighing more than the record still sees a rack.

The ranges are also bought in bulk and resold, so the neighbours in your block are other customers of the same seller, and their history sits next to yours.

Using one in a profile

Sellers deliver these in the same shapes as everything else, with a login or with your own address allowed through, and both go into the library as one line.

Because the address does not move, the exit country and the clock the profile reports stay the same from day to day. That steadiness is the reason to buy one.

An address with a login takes one extra step

A proxy that wants a user and a password gets them from a small relay on loopback, so the password never sits in a launch line. An address allowed through by your own IP needs no login and no relay at all.

Often confused with

  • Residential proxy

    A real household line with a real subscriber on it. Metered by traffic and not static.

  • Datacenter proxy

    The same rack without the consumer registration, at a fraction of the price.

  • Mobile proxy

    A carrier address shared with real phones, bought for how often it changes.

  • Static residential

    The seller's name for this same thing. Two names, one product, and the price tells you which you are reading.

What this does not do

  • It does not move the machine. The address is hosted, and a platform that looks at more than the registry record can tell.
  • It does not change on its own. Rotation depends on a link from the seller, and an address sold as static usually arrives without one.
  • It does not stay private by being yours. Everything that leaves through one address for a year is tied together by that address alone.
  • We do not sell proxies. The provider directory inside the app records an intent, takes no payment, and puts nothing into your library by itself.

Check it

Everything said above about the product is held by a file and by a stand you can run.

Seller formats become library rows in one paste
packages/shared/src/proxy-line.js · apps/desktop/test/proxy-library.js
A login goes through the loopback relay and an open address needs none
apps/desktop/src/lib/proxyAuthBridge.js · apps/desktop/test/proxy-auth-bridge.js
The exit country is asked through the address itself
apps/desktop/src/lib/exitGeo.js · apps/desktop/test/exit-geo.js
The check takes the same road a launch takes
apps/desktop/src/main/main.js · apps/desktop/test/proxy-check-uses-bridge.js

Questions

Why do sellers call it static residential?
Because the address is registered to a consumer provider and does not rotate. The machine behind it is still hosted, and the name says nothing about that.
Is it better than a rotating pool for an account?
For an account you stay signed in to, a steady address is easier to live with than one that changes under you. For collecting public data the opposite is true.
Does it need a password?
Sellers offer both: a user and a password, or your own address allowed through. The app stores either, and the password goes through a relay rather than a launch line.
Can several profiles share one of these?
They can, and the stability that makes it pleasant also makes the link permanent. Two accounts on one static address read as one person for as long as you rent it.

Keep one steady address per profile

Save the entry once, link a profile to it, and check which country and city it answers from.