Glossary · Proxy types
ISP proxy
A proxy hosted in a data center but registered to a consumer ISP, combining datacenter speed and stability with the trust of a residential network.
An ISP proxy is the hybrid of the two families around it. The machine sits in a data center, so it is fast and always on, but the IP address is registered to a residential internet provider, so a site reading the network sees a consumer ISP rather than a hosting company. You get datacenter performance wearing a residential badge.
This is why ISP proxies are often called static residential: unlike a rotating residential address that may live for minutes, an ISP address is dedicated to you and holds for weeks or months. That stability matters when a task needs the same identity across many requests, managing an account, holding a session, anything that looks suspicious if the IP keeps changing underneath it.
The catch is coverage. Because each address depends on a hosting provider having struck the arrangement to announce ISP-registered space in a given country, ISP proxies exist in far fewer places than rotating residential, which is geo-targeted almost everywhere.
How HProxy handles it
ISP availability is genuinely per-country, so our location pages only show an ISP card where the live catalog actually lists it, never as a blanket promise.
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