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Pros and cons of a backconnect proxy

Still not sure what a backconnect proxy is? Well, its advantages and disadvantages may help you to understand it better.

Pro: Increases your anonymity

Our backconnect proxy makes you anonymous when you scrape the web at scale. You can scrape data freely and avoid getting blocked, throttled, or banned.

The backconnect proxy won’t expose your IP address to any of your target websites. This is because the backconnect proxy will be between you and the automatically rotating residential proxy pool. And the best part? Smartproxy’s residential pool itself has more than 40 million residential proxies. 

Con: Higher prices

Since backconnect proxies offer better anonymity, security, and no rate limits, many providers ask you to pay extra for them. However, we are a premium backconnect proxy provider that doesn’t charge more for these benefits. You can start to use our proxy network for as little as $75/month + VAT. You get unlimited bandwidth – our pricing plans are based on traffic usage. Enterprise-level plans go as low as $4/GB of data.

Pro: Saves your time

Backconnect proxy is a great time-saving solution. It automatically rotates IPs, allowing you to make a greater number of requests per minute. Besides, this proxy rotation will provide better connection and security.

Con: Possible speed challenges

Sometimes your request delivery time can lag. It may happen when your target website server is far from your backconnect proxy server. For instance, your target website is in France, and you use a backconnect proxy from Canada. This means that your request has to go all the way from France to Canada and from Canada – back to France.

Fortunately, this is an easily fixable issue. For the best user experience, choose your backconnect proxy that is close to your target site’s location. Smartproxy allows you to choose IPs from more than 195 locations worldwide. And voila – the problem is fixed!

Pro: Ensures your security

Since the backconnect proxy stands between you and the website’s server, it increases your IP address security. This is especially important when you scrape the web because there’s always a risk of being targeted with malicious content. In case your IP address is infiltrated successfully, in some cases, you can even say goodbye to your web scraping career.

Con: Eliminates limits on requests

Websites use rate-limiting to control how many requests one user can make. The website will ban an IP address or a proxy if it exceeds this limit. With our backconnect proxy, you don’t have to worry about rate limits because you get unlimited bandwidth! A different residential proxy will take each request, so there’s almost no way of being banned on any website.