How to Configure Your Datacenter Proxy
Learn how to configure your datacenter proxy settings, select IP types, set geolocation targeting, and enable advanced features in this guide.
To access your proxy configuration, open your zone in the “Configuration” tab.
IP type
Bright Data offers 3 types of datacenter proxies:
Shared
A rotating proxy over a pool of ~40,000 proxies, paid by usage GBs.
Shared unlimited
A set of specific proxies, shared with others, with unlimited bandwidth, paid by proxy.
Dedicated unlimited
A set of specific proxies, exlcusive for you, with unlimited bandwidth, paid by proxy.
Shared (rotating) proxy configuration
Default countries selection
When selecting countries in shared pool configuration, we will assign proxies only from the countries you select. You can select none (which meand we will assign the next random proxy from the pool), one or more countries. Read more…
To select a specific country for your peer during rotation, use the flag -country in the proxy user name parameter with an ISO-3166 country code.
FAQ: Where can I see the list of country codes?
Shared & Dedicated unlimited proxy configuration
Number of IPs
For unlimited proxies we offer a discount based on amount of proxies you purchase per zone. The more you buy, less your pay per proxy. Click on the “Rates” link in your zone setup to see rates.
Number of IPs to be allocated as your pool of available IPs.
Country selection
Geolocation targeting allows you to target specific Country.
Select the preferred countries from the drop-down menu.
Once selected, we will assign proxies from those countries. If we do not have enough proxies to cover your requirement, we will assign the amount we have and you can submit an order for the full amount of proxies (we do not allow single proxy orders - we will take in large orders only). Changing this selection means re-allocating proxies, which will incur a Refresh charge .
If you select multiple countries, we assign proxies distributed evenly across the countries you selected.
Changing country
It is possible to change the country you selected for your proxies. Once you change the country, Bright Data will assign new proxies from the selected countries. Since this is a replacement of proxy you will recieve a new IP.
Changing country is similar to IP refresh action and is charged the same.
Access your allocated Proxies’ IP addresses
In all proxy types, you can download, view and copy to clipboard the IPs allocated to you by following these steps:
- Navigate to the Zones page.
- Select a zone with allocated IPs.
- In the overview tab click ‘Download’, ‘View’ or ‘Copy’.
Advanced options
Cache proxy
Bright Data’s cache proxy is a feature that aims to reduce the unneeded load from target sites by allowing customers to have their successful results cached on the one hand and, on the other hand, to receive cached results to their requests when possible.
Healthier ecosystem
Healthier ecosystem
It is technically possible to overload a website by consuming its resources and causing performance issues in the data collection field. Bright Data, on top of putting systems in place to avoid target site overloading, is also offering the cache proxy feature to avoid making redundant requests to target sites in cases where we have an up-to-date cache record from an identical request made by another customer.
Improved performance
Improved performance
Responses received from our cache are roughly 20 times faster! This means that as our cache usage grows, performance will keep increasing.
Financial benefit
Financial benefit
To promote our goal of maintaining a healthy ecosystem, we are providing a usage discount for any usage going through a proxy zone that is opted in to cache proxy.
While the cache records we will serve may be a small percentage of the overall proxy zone usage, the discount will be applied for the full use of the proxy zone.
Once proxy cache is selected, we will search thru our cache and if we see a fresh request identical to yours which was issued in the past 2 hours, we will provide the data from it and not from the target website. Cache data is faster to retrieve and we offer some discount when enabling this option. In order to use it, you must install and include our certificate for cache access.
Simply toggle the cache proxy switch
Once switched on, we will walk you through installing our certificate which is required for this feature to work.
Install certification
Install certification
Automatic Failover
In case we cannot reach the proxy peer for your request, we will route the request to another available peer. Automatic failover does not apply when you choose default countries: if we cannot find a peer in the country you selected, we will fail the request with error.
Enabling automatic failover assures execution of the request, regardless of the availability of a specific peer.
Special Ports & Protocols
Ports 80 and 443 are available by default, supporting HTTP and HTTPS & SOCKS5 protocols. We also support all ports over 1024 in our Datacenter proxy network. Read more on ports and protocols…
Request Additional ports
Request Additional ports
Bright Data can support additional ports by request. A dedicated and additional compliance process with the Bright Data compliance team will follow every request to support a new port. If you would like additional port permissions, you can contact Bright Data Support. Examples of ports that require Bright Data compliance review before activation:
| Port | Protocol |
|---|---|
70 | HTTP |
98 | HTTPS |
Zone usage limit
Set usage limit to your zone: you can limit spending or traffic. This provides additional layer of control to your budget and bandwidth consumption, mostly over our rotating shared pool proxies.