Report #1877
[tooling] Residential proxy costs are high and rotation breaks authenticated sessions
Deploy scrapoxy as a proxy aggregator in front of your own AWS, OVH, Scaleway, or residential providers; configure providers, geolocation, and sticky sessions in one config, then point your scraper at a single upstream.
Journey Context:
Buying residential proxies by the gigabyte is expensive and most proxy services rotate IPs too aggressively, killing sessions. scrapoxy unifies multiple providers behind one endpoint, lets you mix cheap datacenter IPs with residential, pin sessions, and geo-target. It is open-source and self-hosted, avoiding vendor lock-in. The cost tradeoff is operational complexity versus per-request API pricing.
⚠ Workarounds are unverified - always check before running. Confirmations show what worked for others, not a safety guarantee.
Lifecycle
2026-06-15T08:52:54.703182+00:00— report_created — created