{"id":41357,"date":"2026-06-11T09:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/can-someone-explain-residential-proxies-vs-datacenter-proxies-to-me-like-i-am-five-im-so-confused\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:28:02","slug":"can-someone-explain-residential-proxies-vs-datacenter-proxies-to-me-like-i-am-five-im-so-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/can-someone-explain-residential-proxies-vs-datacenter-proxies-to-me-like-i-am-five-im-so-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Someone Explain Residential Proxies Vs Datacenter Proxies To Me Like I Am Five? I&#8217;m So Confused."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>All right, I\u2019ve read ten articles on this and I still don\u2019t think I understand it. <\/p>\n<p>I have a small project to scrape product prices from some sites. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing crazy, just e-commerce stuff. someone told me i need residential proxies but they&#8217;re like 5x the price of datacenter and i don&#8217;t understand why i would need them for something this basic Like, what actually happens if i just use datacenter? Will I be blocked right away or is it fine for most normal sites? And what the hell is an ISP proxy? is different again. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just trying to not spend money on something I don\u2019t need. any help appreciated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/aaru101\"> \/u\/aaru101 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1u2re53\/can_someone_explain_residential_proxies_vs\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1u2re53\/can_someone_explain_residential_proxies_vs\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41357 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41357' data-nonce='bc39e8310e' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41357 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41357 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, I\u2019ve read ten articles on this and I still don\u2019t think I understand it. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}