How proxies work

A residential proxy routes your requests through an IP address assigned by a real internet service provider to an actual device, rather than a datacenter. This makes your traffic look like it comes from an ordinary residential connection, which is far less likely to be blocked or rate-limited by target sites.

The request lifecycle

When you send a request through a BuyProxy endpoint, three things happen:

• BuyProxy authenticates your session by IP or user:pass credentials
• Your request is matched to an IP in the target country, city, or ASN
• The response is proxied back to you over the same connection

Rotating vs sticky

Rotating sessions assign a new IP on every request, ideal for high-volume scraping. Sticky sessions hold the same IP for a configurable duration — useful for multi-step flows like checkout or login that need a consistent identity.