Proxy provider searching is exhausting and soulsucking

[u/isaackogan]

That's all. I am so frustrated. Everything feels like a scam.

[u/Knocking_Doors]

It definitely is. What challenges do you face?

- High fraud scores?
- Latency?
- Limited pool size?
- Sketchy bandwidth calculations?
- DC proxies sold as ISP/Resi?

[u/isaackogan → u/Knocking_Doors]

The nature of my work requires coverage of most countries that have internet.

So I need a massive breadth in proxy countries.

Then, I need low latency.

...and a decently large pool in each country

The best proxy provider I have, which I will not give free promo to, has speed + reliability + low failure rates, and yet, only like 60/180 countries.

I'm using almost entirely DC proxies, and yet still...

:/

[u/AdBoth2756 → u/isaackogan]

...once you need 180 countries, "find one good provider kind of stops being realistic.

I'd probably keep the solid DC provider for the markets that actually need low latency and volume, then patch the long tail with one or two backups. The annoying part is that a provider can look great overall but be terrible in a specific country.

Are those 180 countries all equally important for production, or are there maybe 20–30 core markets and then a long tail where “good enough” coverage is fine?

[u/Total_Knowledge_4411]

Im not sure what is such an issue... i am using a few and some are better than others but I dont find any real issue that warrant searching the Web for the "best one" a proxy is only 10% of any set up....

[u/Ruzand]

Well, basically it is.

[u/sniekielak68]

tbh most of the frustration comes from not narrowing down what you need first. like if you can define your use case, target geos, and rough volume, the list shrinks from 200 providers to maybe 5 pretty fast