Residential, ISP, datacenter or rotating IPv6: which proxy for which job

GhostConnect sells four kinds of proxy. They are not four grades of the same thing. Each one is a different trade between how real the address looks, how much it costs, how long it lasts and how many connections it can carry. Pick the wrong one and you either overpay or get blocked. This guide says what each type is, how it is billed and authenticated, and what it is for. Every price and limit on this page is read from the same configuration the order form uses, so it is the price you will see at checkout.

Residential

A residential proxy routes your request through a real household connection. The site you reach sees an ordinary home address, with an ordinary provider behind it, in the country, state or city you asked for. The pool spans 195+ countries. You choose a rotating session, where each request may leave from a different address, or a sticky one that keeps the same exit for 1 to 1440 minutes (the default is 30). It speaks HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5.

Billing. Per gigabyte: $2.99 per GB, and the bandwidth never expires. An unused gigabyte is still yours next month, or next year. You can order 1 to 1000 GB in one go, with presets at 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, and top up the same plan later. Ten gigabytes cost $29.90. There is no renewal and no auto-renew, because there is nothing to run out of but data.

Authentication. Username and password. Targeting and the session are appended to the password, so one set of credentials gives you every country and every session type without another order. The dashboard and the API both build the strings for you: the host is residential.ghostconnect.io, port 1080 for HTTP and 1081 for SOCKS5, with 1111 and 2222 as second ports for networks that block the first. An IP allowlist is optional for anyone who prefers to skip the password.

Good for. Anything that checks whether you look like a person: price and availability checks across regions, verifying how a page or an advert renders in another country, account work that must come from a plausible home address, scraping sites that block datacenter ranges on sight.

Bad for. Bulk transfer. Every byte is metered, so downloading large files or streaming through a residential proxy is the most expensive way to do it. It is also the wrong place to look for raw speed; a home connection is a home connection.

ISP

An ISP proxy is a static IPv4 address on a consumer internet provider's network. To a website it looks residential. To you it behaves like a dedicated server: the same address every day, unlimited bandwidth, and nobody else on it. Available in 7 countries: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, France. Each location is one all-purpose pool. HTTP and SOCKS5.

Billing. Per IP, per month: $5.00. Terms run from 1 to 24 months. One order can hold up to 1,000 IPs, or up to 249 for terms of 12 months or more, and never more than the country's live stock, which the order form and the API catalog show before any money moves. Two IPs for a month cost $10.00; one IP for a year costs $60.00. Renewals cover every IP in the order, and auto-renew can pay from your balance about a day before expiry.

Authentication. Username and password only. There is no allowlist on ISP proxies, and the credentials cannot be reset from the dashboard; message support if you need new ones.

The swap. Every term includes one free IP swap. Use it and every address in the order is replaced with fresh ones, the old ones stop working at once, and your proxy ids stay the same so scripts and bookmarks keep working. A renewal grants the next swap. It is the answer to an address that has picked up a bad reputation somewhere you need it to work.

Good for. Anything that needs the same clean address for a long time: managing accounts that notice when your address changes, retail and ticketing where a datacenter range is refused but a rotating address is suspicious, sessions that must survive for weeks.

Bad for. Short jobs. An ISP order cannot be ended early; it runs to its expiry date. If you need an address for a week, buy a datacenter proxy for a week instead. It is also the wrong tool for high-volume rotation: you are paying for one address to stay still.

Datacenter

A datacenter proxy is a dedicated static IP in a hosting facility. Fast, cheap, unlimited bandwidth, and plainly a server address to anyone who looks. You choose IPv4 or IPv6 and one of 6 countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Germany. HTTP and SOCKS5.

Billing. Per IP, per 31 days: $1.79, prorated to the term you pick. Durations are 7, 14, 31, 62, 93, 186, 365 days, so a week costs $0.40 and 31 days cost $1.79. Up to 100 IPs in one order, limited by live stock per country; five IPs for 31 days come to $8.95. Renew for any of the same durations, or let auto-renew do it from your balance.

Authentication. Username and password, with an optional IP allowlist. Credentials can be reset from the dashboard or the API at any time; the old ones stop working immediately.

Good for. Speed and volume where nobody is checking the neighbourhood: hitting your own servers from another country, downloading, testing geo-restricted APIs, running a crawler against sites that do not fingerprint address ranges, a stable address for a bot you control end to end. It is the cheapest static address on the site.

Bad for. Anywhere a datacenter range is blocked by default. A site that keeps a list of hosting ranges will refuse it outright. If the target cares where you come from, this is not the one.

Rotating IPv6

The rotating product is a gateway that gives you a fresh IPv6 exit on every request. You do not get a list of addresses; you get one host and a number of concurrent threads, and each connection through it leaves from a new address. Exits are in Canada. Bandwidth is unlimited. HTTP only: there is no SOCKS5 on this product.

Billing. Per thread, per day: $0.012. You pick 100 to 5,000 threads in steps of 100 and a term of 7, 14, 30, 60, 90 days. The smallest plan, 100 threads for 30 days, costs $36.00; 500 threads for a week cost $42.00. Renew for any of the same terms, or auto-renew from your balance.

Authentication. Username and password on the gateway, with an optional IP allowlist. Credentials can be reset from the dashboard or the API.

Good for. Mass requests to targets that reach over IPv6 and rate-limit per address: search result collection, large crawls, availability monitoring across thousands of pages, anything where the point is that no two requests share an address. Nothing is metered but time and threads, so the price does not grow with the number of requests.

Bad for. Anything that needs IPv4, SOCKS5, a sticky session or a non-Canadian exit. A site that does not listen on IPv6 is unreachable through it. A login that expects the same address twice will not get one.

Side by side

Terminating a residential, datacenter or rotating proxy does not refund unused time or bandwidth.

Choosing

• The target blocks hosting ranges and you need to look like a person: residential, and buy only the gigabytes you will use.
• You need one address that looks like a person and stays the same for months: ISP.
• You need a fast, cheap, stable address and the target does not care where you come from: datacenter.
• You need thousands of requests from thousands of addresses and the target speaks IPv6: rotating.

When in doubt, start with the smallest order of the type you think fits. One gigabyte of residential, a week of datacenter, 100 rotating threads for seven days or one ISP IP for a month is enough to find out whether the target accepts it, and the quote endpoint in the API tells you the exact price before you commit.

Every product is bought the same way: a key, a balance or a crypto or card payment at checkout, and nothing that says who you are. Get a key, then order residential, ISP, datacenter or rotating proxies, or do it from code with the API.