People arrive at a proxy provider comparison for one of two reasons: the price moved, or the thing stopped working. This page assumes you are in one of those two positions with IsHostedBy and wants to be useful in ten minutes rather than impressive in thirty.
The record we hold
The domain is ishostedby.com.
IsHostedBy is not in our priced record, so nothing about their rate appears below. That gap is stated rather than filled, which is the only honest option available.
Note the price, the unit it is quoted in, the minimum, and the expiry. Unit and expiry are where most comparisons in this market quietly go wrong.
How IsHostedBy presents itself
As of 9 September 2026 the tab reads "IsHostedBy.com - Who is hosting that website?". Their own summary of the product runs: "IsHostedBy is a website where you can lookup where certain websites are hosted. The information includes the exact geographical location and the name of the company that is hosting the servers. We also link to those hosting websites so that you can possibly use them yourself."
What else that page states, without interpretation:
We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.
That is the vendor speaking, not us. We print it because a claim with a date attached is at least falsifiable.
Longevity, on the public record
The domain was registered on 27 May 2011, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 15 years old. That record was read from the registry on 9 September 2026. The registry shows it renewed to 27 May 2027.
Age is not quality. A long registration does not make a network good, and a new one does not make it bad. What it does rule out is the shortest-lived pattern in this market, which is a site that appears, sells, and is gone inside a year.
What the advertised numbers cannot tell you
The country total, and the country you use
Almost every provider claims almost every country. What differs is depth, and depth decides whether a single city or a single carrier is usable. No published figure tells you that.
Match the units before anything else
Residential is normally billed per gigabyte, datacenter and ISP per address, mobile per day or per port. Setting one against another produces a number that means nothing. Convert both sides into the unit your own workload consumes.
Threads, not gigabytes, are often the ceiling
Bandwidth is rarely the constraint on a real workload. Concurrent connections, requests per second and per-session caps are, and they are frequently buried in the documentation rather than the pricing page.
What separates them, in a table
The rows that matter, with our own answers stated plainly:
| Question to ask | IsHostedBy | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | On their own terms page | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Their terms page answers this | None |
| Identity checks | Check the current terms, this one moves | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Read their current terms | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
We would rather show an incomplete table than a confident wrong one. Anything we could not source is left for you to read at the source, with the date you read it.
A test worth more than this comparison
Do this once and you will never need a comparison page for this decision again.
- Start with the smallest purchase each vendor allows, so the test costs less than the decision it replaces.
- Use your own scraper and your own target. A benchmark against a neutral site measures nothing you will experience.
- Measure what came back correctly and what it consumed, then divide the spend by the successes.
- Push a sample of exit addresses through an independent checker and confirm the country and connection type are what was advertised.
- Buy the one that won on your target, and diarise a re-test in three months.
Others in this market
Nearest alternatives by product shape rather than by who pays us, since nobody does:
- Proxyguys alternatives
- Proxyhat alternatives
- Proxyhorizon alternatives
- ProxyIdea alternatives
- Proxying alternatives
- ProxyJet alternatives
Our side of it
HProxy is pay as you go from $0.44 per GB on residential, with ISP, mobile and datacenter under one balance and no commitment attached to any of them. Run the test. If we lose on your target, we lose, and you have your answer.
