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If blocks are costing you more than the proxies, it is probably time to switch to dedicated IPs. 🔗 byteful.com/proxy-service/…

Use dedicated when identity matters, use shared when volume matters.

Shared IPs are cheaper for volume, but every user in the pool contributes to the same reputation.

Dedicated IPs give you one clean identity, so your sessions are not affected by someone else’s traffic.

Shared IPs can quietly drag down your success rate even if you're scraping sensibly🛑

Wisdom Wednesday🧙‍♂️ Weekly @byteful team talks on whatever we're deep in. Proxies, networking, infra, you name it. This week @dye_dev breaks down TCP/IP fingerprinting 🔍 Is your device more M1460,N,W7 or M1452,N,W6,N,N,T,S,E,E? 🤔

It’s the small touches that count🧑‍💻 Most proxy dashboards give you template code. YOUR_USERNAME, YOUR_PASSWORD, YOUR_HOST. We dynamically generate code with your real proxy configuration. Copy, paste…work.

Every truncated value in our dashboard is now one hover away from full context🔎 UUIDs, IP ranges, hostnames. Hover to expand, click to copy. Every table, every value.

A third of your residential proxy data might be wasted on requests that don't need a residential IP 💸 Smartpath uses AI to route each request in real time. Average savings of 40%, up to 61% on some sites. Success rates stay the same. One toggle for a lower bill.

Every table in our dashboard now works the same way 🔁 Filtering, sorting, pagination, column selection. Same logic everywhere. Learn it once. Sensible defaults out of the box, fully extensible when you need more. The best tables are the ones you stop noticing.

Every IP address, CIDR, UUID, and service ID in our dashboard used to look like the same string 😵‍💫 Now every data type has its own visual identity. Glance at a value and know what it is. Small change. Touches every screen.

The line between scraping and theft just got clearer. Anna’s Archive was ordered to pay $322M for scraping 86M Spotify audio files. Legal scraping = public data, not stolen credentials. We break down the principles → byteful.com/blog/is-web-sc…

@IPXOcom They published a case study on how we built this together. If you're scaling proxy, web data, or any IP-heavy infrastructure, it's worth a read. ipxo.com/success-storie…

@IPXOcom Their platform gave us a single place to manage sourcing, provisioning, compliance, and assignment across all our networks. The results: 24% reduction in IP resource costs 50% faster provisioning Full API integration for automated provisioning

Byteful now processes 20 billion+ web requests per month across 35M+ residential proxies. Growing 100%+ year over year for two consecutive years. That kind of growth breaks things if your infrastructure can't keep up. One of the first things that broke for us was IP sourcing.

Our founder @timatbyteful answered 6,000 tickets last year. The feedback drove our dashboard overhaul. 🎨 Clear visual identity for all data 📦 Product-first layout 🔗 Unified observability ⚡ Sensible defaults, full extensibility Full story: byteful.com/blog/10000-hou…

No rebrand is complete without new T-shirts. @byteful customer care packages soon? 👀 🎁

Ping Proxies is now @byteful. Exciting🥳 We’ve grown from a one-man band to serving thousands of customers and generating millions in revenue. Now we’re preparing for a shift beyond web scraping, where agents don’t just extract data but act on it at unprecedented scale.

We’re at an inflection point. Shipping faster than ever, expanding the team, and doubling down on what’s next. Read the full announcement: byteful.com/blog/ping-prox…

We’re still proxies at the core. But the real work is how they’re run: control, observability, and security. Byteful is the infrastructure platform for web data, automation, and agentic AI.

Ping Proxies is now Byteful🎉 31 quadrillion bytes flowed through our network last year. At that scale, proxies were just the starting point.