The HProxy Blog

HighProxies sold private, shared, and social media datacenter proxies. What it was, why social-media proxies moved on, and if it is still live.

LimeProxies sold premium dedicated datacenter proxies from 2010, then went quiet. What it was, why it faded, and whether its domain still means anything.

LuxSocks was a Russian SOCKS5 proxy market prized by carders. It went dark in January 2022 in a reported Russian takedown. The story and the buyer lesson.

ProxyBonanza is a 2010s datacenter proxy veteran still trading today, but its UK company dissolved in 2013 and its tooling froze in 2019. Verify before you trust it.

RSOCKS sold millions of hacked IoT devices as proxies until the FBI and DOJ seized it in June 2022. How it worked, who ran it, and what replaced it.

Storm Proxies was the cheap backconnect rotating proxy everyone used around 2016. It never shut down. It stopped evolving, and the market moved past it.

VIP72 sold access to malware-infected PCs as SOCKS proxies for 15 years, then vanished in 2021. Who ran it, how it worked, and the sourcing lesson.

CGNAT puts thousands of subscribers behind one public IP. How carrier-grade NAT works, the shared 100.64.0.0/10 space, and why it makes mobile IPs hard to block.

Shifter.io used to be Microleaves, a proxy service Kaspersky flagged as a trojan and that leaked its own users in 2022. Here is the sourced history and why a rebrand does not reset a network's origins.

911 S5 was called the largest botnet ever: 19 million hijacked IPs sold as residential proxies via fake free VPNs. Here is how it worked, how the FBI took it down, and the sourcing lesson.

Many 'independent' proxy and VPN brands trace back to one Lithuanian venture builder, Tesonet, and its founders. Here is the sourced ownership map, and why it matters when you compare providers.

AWS WAF Bot Control scores your IP reputation, your TLS (JA3) fingerprint, a JavaScript token that interrogates your browser, and your session behavior. Here is what residential proxies fix and what you have to bring yourself.

Fastly's Next-Gen WAF, formerly Signal Sciences, scores your IP and NLX reputation, your request signals and rate, and a client-side challenge that fingerprints headless browsers. Here is what residential proxies fix and what you have to bring yourself.

reCAPTCHA v3 never shows a puzzle. It scores every request from 0.0 to 1.0 and the site acts on a threshold you cannot see. Bypassing it means raising the score, not solving anything. Here is what feeds the score and where residential proxies fit.

Radware Bot Manager scores your IP and cross-property reputation, a JavaScript Crypto Challenge, a 250-parameter device fingerprint, and your intent through IDBA. Here is what residential proxies fix and what you have to bring yourself.

FunCaptcha is Arkose's interactive puzzle: rotate the object, match the image, and hand back a single-use fc-token the server verifies. Here is how the puzzle and token actually work, how solving fits, and why a clean residential setup keeps it rare.

GeeTest v4 scores your behavior, device, and IP, then picks a slide, icon, or gobang challenge by risk. Finding the slider gap is trivial; passing the trajectory and environment checks is the real work. Here is how solving actually fits, and where proxies help.

HProxy vs Geonode on price: HProxy is the cheaper flat rate up to about 100 GB, and Geonode's tier rate dips below it only at large committed volume.

HProxy vs Massive on price and model: a much cheaper residential alternative at $0.65/GB, and where Massive's ethically sourced, AI-focused network is worth the premium.

HProxy vs NodeMaven on price, model and IP quality: a much cheaper NodeMaven alternative for residential proxies, and when NodeMaven's IP quality filter is worth the premium.

HProxy vs PacketStream on price, model and range: two flat-rate pay-as-you-go residential networks, where HProxy is cheaper per GB and sells more proxy types on one balance.

HProxy vs Proxy-Cheap on residential price and model: a flat $0.65/GB alternative with no promo cliff, and where Proxy-Cheap's cheap static and datacenter catalog still wins.

HProxy vs Proxy-Seller on price, network and billing: a cheaper Proxy-Seller alternative for residential proxies, and when Proxy-Seller's bigger pool and per-type targeting are worth it.

HProxy vs ProxyEmpire on residential price and model: a much cheaper flat $0.65/GB alternative, and where ProxyEmpire's unlimited rollover and mobile coverage still win.