A dedicated address is rented per address, usually by the month. Nobody else's behaviour can spoil it, and it never changes, which suits a single long-lived account. It also means one address is all you have.
Rotating pools are shared by nature: the same home or mobile address serves different customers at different times. In exchange you get a very large number of addresses and pay only for traffic. BooProxies sells pooled, rotating plans; a sticky session holds one address for a while when you need steadiness.
Questions about dedicated and shared proxies
Is a shared proxy unsafe?
Sharing an address does not expose your traffic to the others who use it. The risk is reputation: someone else's behaviour on an address can earn it captchas or blocks.
When do I need a dedicated IP address?
When one account must come from exactly the same address for months and the site reacts to any change. For most other work, a pool with sticky sessions costs less and gives more addresses.
Related terms
- ISP proxy
- An ISP proxy, also called a static residential proxy, is an address registered to a home internet provider but hosted on a server, so it never changes.
- Proxy pool
- A proxy pool is the whole set of IP addresses a proxy service can send your requests through. Each request is given one address from it.
- Sticky session
- A sticky session keeps the same proxy IP address for a set time, so several requests in a row look like they come from one visitor.
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