Compare the Internet industry situation a few years ago, careful people will find that the growth of some industries is very obvious, especially the e-commerce industry, and cross-border e-commerce is also booming. However, like many industries that do overseas business, as long as they are targeted at overseas customers, they need overseas HTTP proxy as assistance at work, because free proxy does not have much effect on enterprise security, practicality, etc., so here, I will compare the overseas HTTP proxy StormProxies and BuyProxies for evaluation to see what points you need to look at to choose a high-quality overseas HTTP proxy.
1. Basic information
StormProxies As a domestic high-quality overseas HTTP proxy service provider, it has cooperative relationships with many famous companies such as NetEase, Sogou , Dangdang , etc. It can provide a variety of API parameters, account password authentication management methods to extract IP, which is convenient and fast, and meets various industries of the enterprise. It currently supports dynamic and static residential agents, and data center agents and mobile agents will be launched soon. It has the advantages of ultra-high concurrency, high-quality IP pool, stable and efficient IP pool, large IP anonymity, and online customer service throughout the day. StormProxies' IP covers more than 200 countries and regions around the world, with more than 50 million IPs, and supports HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 protocols.
BuyProxies is an overseas HTTP proxy network provider. It is headquartered in Europe and supports both HTTP and HTTPS protocols. Most of the areas covered by Europe and the United States. Currently, it only provides data center proxy, with a 24-hour money-back guarantee, and its compatibility is pretty good. It has a certain popularity in the data center proxy.
2. Product features
StormProxies
Advantages: high cost performance, low price, fast customer service reply, convenient operation, provide a variety of API parameters, safe and occult, real residential IP, stable operation 24 hours a day, system pays attention to network status in real time
Disadvantages: Currently there are fewer optional packages
BuyProxies
Optimal Points: The speed is OK, the compatibility is good, the price is not high, the customer service reply is still fast
Disadvantages: There are few regions and are restricted, the data center agent usage scenarios are few, there is no residential agent, and the domestic payment method does not support
3. Price comparison
StormProxies' residential agent price is 10.5 to 21 yuan/GB per month. The larger the package, the lower the average price. It is basically a number lower than the market price and there is a 1G trial package.
BuyProxies' private data center agent price starts at USD 2 per agent per month, and the more agents the more expensive it is.
4. Customer support
StormProxies As a domestic agent, there is no problem of the most critical time difference. The customer service is online all day, and it is basically back in seconds after actual testing. You can also contact Penguin or VX, so you don’t have to worry about not being able to contact. You will be more at ease, and the help page has specific usage skills and tutorial videos.
BuyProxies' customer support is average, and the online reply is pretty good. You can reply within 10 minutes, but the time difference is relatively large, and you are only online during local working hours.
5. Summary
Generally speaking, for the professional needs of crawler , cross-border e-commerce operations, it still depends on StormProxies. After all, StormProxies is relatively good in terms of professionalism. Whether in terms of IP quality or the size of IP pool, it is impeccable. BuyProxies only has data center agents, which are not practical and cover very few areas. Therefore, it will be better to choose StormProxies, and the prices of domestic agents will be more realistic. Of course, choices are subjective and evaluations are objective. Everything depends on one's own needs.
