Glossary · Proxy types
Gateway proxy
A single entry point that routes your traffic into a whole pool of exit IPs, so you connect to one address and reach many.
A gateway proxy is the connection model behind most rotating residential services. Rather than giving you a list of individual addresses, the provider gives you one host and port, the gateway, and behind it sits the entire pool. You always connect to the same place; the gateway decides which exit your traffic leaves from.
This is what makes rotation effortless on your side. You point your tool at one endpoint and never manage a list; the switching, and the targeting rules that pick a country or a sticky session, are read from your credentials and applied by the gateway.
It also means the gateway address is not the address a website sees. Your traffic enters at the gateway and exits at a pool member, so the IP that matters to the destination is the exit, not the host you connected to.
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