Crawler Agent Pool Maintenance Cost Calculation｜Build Your Own vs Buy Service Comparison

Crawler partners have experienced the nightmare of IP being blocked, this time the proxy IP pool has become a lifesaver. But many people are stuck in the "self-built or buy service" entanglement, today we use real data + hands-on experience to help you calculate a clear account.

I. Cost pitfalls of self-constructed agent pools

You think you can just rent a couple servers and be done with it? That's naive! Last year a team usedCloud Hosting + Dial-up VPSBuilt my own proxy pool and ended up burning 60k in three months before it was stable. The real cost is included:

More pitiful is the hidden cost: encountered an e-commerce platform to upgrade the anti-climbing system, self-built pools need to be3 days to debug a new strategyThe data collection progress is directly affected. Technical director Wang said: "Raising a team is three times more expensive than buying a service, and the key is always out of order."

II. Three truths about purchasing services

Proxy services on the market are uneven, but professional service providers can do more than you can imagine:

1. Real residential IP resources: ipipgo's 90 million+ residential IPs come from global home broadband and are harder to recognize than server room IPs. After a team doing cross-border price comparison switched to ipipgo, the collection success rate soared from 47% to 92%

2. Intelligent routing technology: automatically match the IP of the geographic location of the target website, a travel platform uses this function to grab hotel prices, data timeliness improvement 60%

3. 7 x 24 hour cleaning: We had a client who requested 2 million requests a day for 3 months straight, ipipgo'sAutomatic phase-out mechanismKeep the effective IP rate above 98%

III. Self-build vs. buy comparison table

Fourth, how to choose the most cost-effective?

Based on our experience serving 3,000+ companies, this is the recommended decision:

Average number of requests per day <50,000: buy the dynamic package directly, ipipgo'spay per volumeHow much of the model is used?

Fixed IP required: Select static residential IP, support for binding specified devices, suitable for account management type of business

Transnational operations: Use ourgeolocation functionAccurate acquisition of regional IPs in the US, Japan, Southeast Asia, etc.

QA High Frequency Questions

Q: Is it really not feasible at all to build my own pool?
A: average daily request more than 2 million times and long-term stable demand can be considered, but to prepare at least 10 people technical team + million budget

Q: How does ipipgo prevent IP blocking?
A: Three core guarantees: ① real residential IP ② request frequency intelligent control ③ real-time quality monitoring system

Q: How do I transition from an existing self-built pool?
A: It is recommended to use a hybrid program, using ipipgo's API as a backup pool, automatic switching when the self-built IP is blocked, there have been seven enterprises through this program to reduce the loss of 60%

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