Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
Residential Proxy Failover: Building Reliable Multi-Region Data Pipelines
A retry handles a bad request. Failover handles a bad dependency. How to design proxy-backed pipelines that survive block waves, geo degradation, and outages.
Chris Collins · July 22, 2026 Residential Proxies for Flight, Hotel and Travel-Fare Data Collection
Travel fares are point-of-sale priced, session-based, and perishable. Why accurate flight and hotel data collection depends on residential proxies, per market.
James Meadow · July 21, 2026 Residential Proxies and GDPR: A Compliance Overview
IP addresses can be personal data, and a proxy doesn't anonymise anything. The GDPR questions compliance teams should actually ask about residential proxies.
Matt Brown · July 20, 2026 How to Use Residential Proxies for eBay Listing and Seller Data Collection
eBay's sold listings are the closest thing to a public price oracle. How to collect listing and seller data accurately, per marketplace, with proxies.
James Meadow · July 19, 2026 How to Configure Residential Proxies in Docker Containers
Proxy config in Docker: why HTTP_PROXY doesn't always apply, NO_PROXY for internal traffic, keeping secrets out of image layers, and per-container identity.
Chris Collins · July 18, 2026 Residential Proxy Load Balancing: Rotation, Concurrency, and Retry Architecture
With a gateway, the pool balances itself. The architecture that matters is yours: rotation units, per-host concurrency, and retries that don't amplify blocks.
Chris Collins · July 17, 2026 Reducing Latency When Using Residential Proxies
Residential proxies have a latency floor, but most of the slowness devs complain about is avoidable. Eight techniques to cut proxy latency, in order of impact.
Chris Collins · July 16, 2026 How to Estimate Your Monthly Residential Proxy Bandwidth Needs
On per-GB plans, bandwidth is what you buy. A simple formula, real per-page sizes, and worked examples to estimate your monthly residential proxy bandwidth.
Matt Brown · July 15, 2026