What MyPrivateProxy sells
MyPrivateProxy, usually shortened to MPP, is one of the longer-standing names in the private-proxy market. It runs its own hardware in roughly two dozen data centres, the majority of them US cities with a smaller European footprint, and sells access to individual IP addresses rather than to a pool. You buy a quantity of proxies, those specific addresses are assigned to you, and for a private plan you are the only person using them for the duration of the subscription.
The billing model follows from that. Everything is a monthly subscription priced per proxy, not per gigabyte, so bandwidth is not the metered resource. IPs are static by default, with replacements available once per billing cycle on request or on an automatic monthly refresh. Access is over HTTP/HTTPS with either IP-whitelist or username-and-password authentication, which is why MPP integrates cleanly with the older desktop SEO and automation tools that expect a fixed host:port list.
Its customer base reflects that heritage: SEO tool operators, social media and affiliate marketers, and a specialty line aimed at ticketing and sneaker releases. That is a real, well-defined market, and MPP is genuinely good at serving it.
- Static IPs assigned to your account, not drawn from a rotating pool
- Per-IP monthly subscription — bandwidth is not the billed resource
- Owned datacentre infrastructure rather than resold capacity
- IP-whitelist authentication, which many legacy scraping tools require
- A plain host:port proxy list that drops into ScrapeBox-era software unchanged
- Shared tiers for people who do not need exclusivity, and a specialty ticketing line
Why you are blocked: datacenter IP type or request behavior
Most people arrive at this page because a target started rejecting their traffic. It is worth separating two very different causes, because only one of them is fixed by changing supplier.
The first is IP classification. Datacentre address space is published, catalogued and easy for any site to identify — a target can decide to treat every IP registered to a hosting provider as suspect regardless of behaviour. If that is what is happening to you, moving to a different datacentre proxy vendor will not help. The IPs will be classified the same way on day one. This is the case where a residential or mobile network genuinely changes the outcome, because those addresses are assigned by consumer ISPs and carriers to real subscriber connections.
The second is behavioural: request rate, header and TLS fingerprints, cookie handling, navigation patterns, or an account that was already flagged. Residential IPs do not fix any of that. If you switch network type and the blocks persist unchanged, the problem was never the address, and you will have added a per-gigabyte bill to a problem you still have. Test with a small prepaid amount before committing anything.
What Nefo sells instead of per-IP datacenter proxies
Nefo sells residential and mobile proxies, and it also now offers static residential ISP IPs, datacenter proxies, static IP proxies, IP Vault addresses, servers and marketplace APIs. Residential traffic exits through IP addresses assigned by internet service providers to real household connections, drawn from a shared rotating pool across 227 countries. You do not buy addresses; you buy bandwidth and generate credentials that consume it.
Generating credentials is free, so a credential is a disposable configuration object rather than a purchased asset. You can create a separate one per job, per target or per region and delete it afterwards without cost. Targeting is set on the credential itself: country for any of the 195+ supported, state or region and city in most of them, and ASN or ISP paired with a country when you need traffic to appear on a specific carrier's network.
There is also a mobile line, which is closer in shape to what MPP subscribers are used to. Mobile proxies are 4G/5G ports on real carrier modems, rented by duration — hours up to 30 days — rather than by gigabyte, with one live IP per port that you keep or change on demand, and US state- and carrier-level targeting.
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with username/password or IP allowlist authentication — SOCKS5 matters if your client needs UDP or non-HTTP protocols
- Rotating sessions with a new IP per request, or sticky sessions held from 1 minute to 24 hours
- Prepaid bandwidth from 5GB, topped up whenever you want
- Flexible plans are non-expiring — unused bandwidth stays in the account
- Free credential generation; only traffic through a credential draws down bandwidth
- Usage tracked per credential in the dashboard, so you can attribute spend to a job
Per-IP unmetered vs per-GB metered proxy pricing
This is the decision that actually matters, and it is arithmetic rather than opinion. MPP's model charges for the address and lets you push as much traffic through it as the target tolerates. Nefo's model charges for the traffic and lets you use as many addresses as you like. Which is cheaper depends entirely on how bandwidth-intensive your work is.
If you are pulling full HTML pages, images or media at volume against targets that accept datacentre traffic, per-IP unmetered is usually the better deal and it is not close. A handful of fixed IPs downloading continuously would cost far more metered by the gigabyte. If instead you are making a modest number of requests against targets that reject datacentre address space outright, per-IP pricing buys you addresses that do not work, and metered residential traffic is both cheaper in practice and the only thing that returns data.
The mistake to avoid is estimating your gigabyte consumption from intuition. Almost everyone is wrong in one direction or the other, usually because they forget how much of a page load is assets rather than markup. Buy the smallest prepaid amount, run one real job with response bodies and images exactly as your production code fetches them, and read the actual number off the dashboard before you plan a budget around it.
How to migrate from MyPrivateProxy to Nefo
The two products connect differently enough that a straight find-and-replace of your proxy list will not work. The changes are small but they are not optional.
The practical consequence is architectural: with MPP you manage a list of addresses and rotate through it in your own code. With Nefo you manage credentials, and rotation, geography and session length are properties you set when generating one. Most people find their proxy-handling code gets shorter, because the pool logic moves out of the application. IP-whitelist authentication carries over too — if your tooling cannot send a username and password, add its IPs to the Nefo IP allowlist and test before you buy anything.
- Authentication: MPP supports IP-whitelisting; every Nefo protocol supports an IP allowlist as well as username and password
- Endpoint shape: a list of distinct host:port entries becomes a single endpoint with parameters on the credential
- Rotation: your own round-robin over a fixed list becomes a rotating credential, or a sticky one if you need session continuity
- Session persistence: a permanently static IP can now be matched with Nefo static IP proxies, static residential ISP IPs or IP Vault addresses; sticky residential sessions still top out at 24 hours, so choose by how long the address must stay constant
- Geography: datacentre city selection becomes country, state, city or ASN targeting set per credential
- Protocol: if you have been constrained to HTTP/HTTPS, SOCKS5 is available and may simplify some clients
When you should stay with MyPrivateProxy
A fair number of MPP customers should not move, and it is worth being direct about which ones. If your targets accept datacentre traffic, staying is the cheaper and simpler choice — you are already paying the lowest rate available for high-volume work, and residential bandwidth would be a straight cost increase for no gain in success rate.
Stay too if your workflow depends on MPP's specialty ticketing infrastructure, which is purpose-built for a use case a general residential pool does not address. Nefo also sells fixed-address products, including static residential ISP IPs, static IP proxies and IP Vault addresses for users who need to keep one address, and supports IP allowlisting as well as username and password.
Nefo is the better fit when the constraint is IP classification rather than throughput: when you need traffic to originate in a specific country, state, city or carrier network that no datacentre footprint covers; when your volume is bursty or seasonal and a fixed monthly subscription bills you for idle capacity; or when you want to test a target properly before committing, which prepaid non-expiring bandwidth from 5GB makes cheap to do. Running both is entirely reasonable — datacentre IPs for the tolerant, high-volume targets and residential for the ones that reject them is a common and sensible split.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Nefo sells static IP proxies: one dedicated address rented per address for a fixed period, with HTTP and SOCKS5 ports, no bandwidth metering and renewal if you want to keep it. For a residential or mobile IP you can keep, IP Vault is the closer match. See datacenter proxies.
Yes. Every Nefo protocol can authenticate by username and password or by IP allowlist. If your automation tool has no field for credentials, add its egress IP to the allowlist and test it before spending anything. Most current scraping libraries and headless browser stacks also handle proxy credentials.
It depends on the cause. If the target rejects published hosting ranges, residential IPs assigned by consumer ISPs are not classified that way. If you are blocked for request rate, fingerprints, cookies or a flagged account, changing network type will not help. Test with 5 GB first.
Measure rather than guess. Buy the smallest prepaid amount, run one real job fetching exactly what production fetches, and read the consumption from the dashboard. Page weight varies widely with assets. Flexible plans do not expire, so an over-purchase simply stays in the account.
No. Nefo bandwidth is prepaid and non-expiring, so you can run 5 GB in parallel on the targets that give you trouble and keep your datacenter proxies for the rest. Many people keep both: datacenter for tolerant, high-volume targets, residential for the rest.
Within a session, yes. Sticky sessions hold one IP from 1 minute up to 24 hours, covering logins and multi-page checkouts. They do not give weeks-long permanence. For that, keep a static IP source, such as a Nefo static IP proxy.