Glossary · Proxy types
Rotating proxy
A proxy setup that assigns a different IP address to each request or on a timer, spreading traffic across a pool so no single address draws attention.
A rotating proxy does not give you one address, it gives you a gateway. You send every request to the same host and port, and behind it the provider swaps the exit IP, per request or on a short timer, from a pool of thousands. To the sites you visit, your traffic looks like many unrelated visitors rather than one busy one.
This is the natural shape for volume work. When you need ten thousand product pages and each one from a fresh address, rotation is what keeps any single IP from crossing a rate limit, because no single IP ever makes enough requests to notice.
Rotation is not free of downsides. Anything that depends on continuity, a login, a cart, a multi-step form, breaks the moment the address changes mid-flow, which is exactly why the sticky session exists as the deliberate opposite.
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