How to Set Up Rotating Datacenter Proxies and Check They Work

Datacenter proxy setup in five steps

Datacenter proxies are the fast, low-cost option for volume work on sites that accept server IPs. They cover 75 countries, 1,901 cities and 1,971 ASNs, and are sold by the gigabyte.

1. Buy bandwidth. Start from 1 GB at $0.66; 10 GB is $5.70 and 100 GB is $49 ($0.49/GB). The rate falls to $0.29/GB at 10 TB, and the bandwidth never expires.
2. Open the proxy generator in your dashboard and choose datacenter proxies.
3. Choose a country and, if you need it, a city or ASN, then pick HTTP(S) or SOCKS5. UDP is also supported.
4. Choose rotating or sticky depending on whether each request should get a new IP.
5. Copy the connection string and add it to your tool.

Connection details

Every line uses the shared gateway gw.nefo.net on port 9000. Targeting goes in the username, for example -country-us for the exit country, with -session-<id> for a sticky session. Authentication is by username and password, or you can allowlist your own IP.

gw.nefo.net:9000
USERNAME-country-us:PASSWORD

Check the proxy works

Run a test request through the proxy and read back the address the website sees:

curl -x socks5h://USERNAME:[email protected]:9000 https://api.ipify.org

You should see a datacenter IP in the country you picked. If you want to confirm the speed, repeat the request a few times and watch the response time. If the connection is refused straight after creating the line, wait about a minute for new credentials to activate.

Datacenter IPs are quick, but some sites block server ranges. If you hit blocks, compare residential vs datacenter proxies and try residential proxies. For code samples see the API docs.

Next steps

See pricing for the full ladder, or open the proxy generator.

Troubleshooting datacenter proxies

If a request fails, work through three checks. First, confirm the username, password and gateway gw.nefo.net:9000 are copied exactly, including the targeting tokens. Second, make sure you still have bandwidth on your balance, because a line stops when the balance runs out and resumes as soon as you top up. Third, try a different country or switch from HTTP to SOCKS5 if your tool supports it. If a site blocks server IPs altogether, that is a limit of datacenter ranges rather than a setup fault, and a residential proxy is the usual alternative. Datacenter bandwidth is refundable within 7 days if unused, at the per-GB rate you paid minus processing fees; see the refund policy.

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