IP rotation is the automatic process of switching the IP address used for your proxy connections. Instead of sending every request from the same IP, the proxy gateway cycles through different addresses from its pool. This prevents target websites from identifying and blocking your traffic based on repeated use of a single IP.
There are two primary rotation modes. Per-request rotation assigns a brand new IP for every single connection. This is the default behavior for most scraping and data collection tasks. Timed rotation keeps the same IP for a set interval (1 minute, 10 minutes, etc.) before switching. You can also use sticky sessions where the IP does not rotate at all until you release it.
With ScaleProxy, rotation behavior is controlled through your proxy credentials. No session ID means random rotation (new IP per request). Adding a session ID creates a sticky session. You switch between modes by changing the username string, not by reconfiguring anything in a dashboard.
Websites track IP addresses. If they see hundreds of requests from a single IP in a short window, they block it. Rotation spreads your requests across thousands or millions of IPs, making each request look like it comes from a unique visitor. For large-scale scraping, this is not optional. Without rotation, you will hit rate limits and blocks within minutes.
The key is having a large enough pool to rotate through. Rotating across 1,000 IPs is better than one, but rotating across 85M+ residential IPs is a different league entirely.
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