Billal Ainaoui
Billal Ainaoui is the founder of HProxy.com. He started it to make honest proxy infrastructure anyone can afford, and he still reads every support message himself. The guides he signs come from the prices, tests and support questions the team works with every day. HProxy sells proxies, so weigh his view with that in mind.
Founder of HProxy.com · 1666 articles
Free proxies
Free Web Proxy vs Free Proxy List: Which One Do You Actually Need?
A free web proxy loads one site in your browser with no setup. A free proxy list gives you ip:port entries you control in any tool. Here's which one you need.
July 2, 2026 · 7 min read
Free proxies
How to Check If a Proxy Is Working: Four Tests, and What We Found
How to check if a proxy works: alive, exit country, speed and anonymity. We checked our own free list again: about half answered within 20 seconds.
July 2, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
How to Fix 504 Gateway Timeout Errors When Using a Proxy
A 504 through a proxy means a gateway stopped waiting for the next hop. The default waits of nginx, AWS, Envoy and Cloudflare, and how to find your cause.
July 2, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
How to set up a proxy in Chrome
Chrome uses the proxy set in Windows or macOS. How to set it there, how to send only Chrome through a proxy with an extension or a flag, and how to check it, turn it off and fix its errors. Tested on Chrome 153 in September 2026.
July 2, 2026 · 12 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With cURL: Flags, Gotchas and Copy-Paste Recipes
Every way to route curl through a proxy: -x syntax, SOCKS5 against socks5h, proxy auth, --noproxy and the environment rules, what a stub proxy recorded for each, and how many curl users run proxies.
July 2, 2026 · 13 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs BrightData.com: Residential Prices, Access Rules and the Terms (2026)
HProxy vs BrightData.com on residential proxies: $8 per GB, or $4 for three months with a code, against our Lite and Premium, the July 2026 company-only KYC rule, commitments that do not roll over, refunds, sessions and payment, read October 22, 2026.
July 2, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
Proxies for Web Scraping: Which Type to Use, How to Rotate, What It Costs
Which proxies to use for web scraping, from our test of 52 retail sites and the per-GB prices of 64 sellers: types by target, rotation, hygiene and code.
July 2, 2026 · 14 min read
Explainer
Rotating vs Static Residential Proxies: Cost and Which to Use
Rotating vs static residential proxies, priced at eight sellers on October 22, 2026: one static IP a month costs as much as about 1 GB of rotating traffic.
July 2, 2026 · 9 min read
Explainer
What Is a SOCKS5 Proxy? A Plain-English Guide With the Details Kept In
A SOCKS5 proxy relays any TCP connection without reading it. How it works, what five common clients send to one, and what free SOCKS5 proxies really do.
July 2, 2026 · 10 min read
Explainer
When Free Proxies Are Fine, and When They Are Not: Our Tests
When are free proxies fine? In our tests, fewer than 1 in 3 delivered a file from our website, 1 in 6 held 720p video, and 1 in 20 carried game traffic.
July 2, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies that don't die mid-job
Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.
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HProxy.
Honest guides and comparisons on proxies, scraping and staying unblocked, from the team that runs the network.