The scheme
Whether the connection speaks http, socks4 or socks5. Getting it wrong fails in exactly the same way as an unreachable host, which is why it is the first thing to check and the last thing people check.
Residential Proxy Usage Guide
Learn how to configure and use residential proxies with country and session control
Available Proxy Nodes
You can use any of the following proxy nodes. All nodes support the same authentication and features.
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Note: You can use any of the above nodes as your proxy hostname and port. All nodes provide the same service and features.
Proxy Connection Format
Your proxy connection string follows this format:
proxy.hstockplus.com:33335:prx_xxxxx-region-{region}-sessid-{sessId}-sesstime-{seddtime}:YourPasswordFormat: host:port:username:password
Connection Parameters
- host:
proxy.hstockplus.com(or any node from the list above) - port:
33335(same for all nodes) - username:
prx_xxxxx[-region-{region}][-sessid-{sessId}][-sesstime-{seddtime}]- •
prx_xxxxx: Your proxy username (provided when you purchase) - •
-region-{region}: Country code (optional, e.g., us, gb, ca) - •
-sessid-{sessId}: Session ID (optional, for sticky sessions) - •
-sesstime-{seddtime}: Session duration in minutes (optional, default: 8)
- •
- password:
YourPassword(provided when you purchase)
Username Format
Important: Your proxy username is automatically generated when you purchase (format: prx_xxxxx). You do NOT need to add "user-" prefix. Simply use your provided username and add optional parameters if needed.
Basic Example
proxy.hstockplus.com:33335:prx_test_002:TestPass456This example uses the basic username without any optional parameters. The system will use default country (US) and generate a random session ID.
Quick Reference
Format: host:port:username:password
Country: Replace {region} with country code (us, gb, ca, etc.)
Session: Replace {sessId} with custom session ID for sticky IP
Duration: Replace {seddtime} with session duration in minutes
The line
Everything Lives in One String
A proxy is handed to you as a single line, and every part of it decides something. Most setup problems are a misread of this line rather than a broken proxy.
The credentials
Username and password sit inside the line, between the scheme and the host. A proxy that requires authentication and receives none looks dead from the outside, and that single confusion accounts for a large share of proxies reported as broken.
The host and port
Often a gateway rather than the address you end up using. With rotating proxies the host stays the same all session and the address behind it does not, which is the point and also the surprise.
Session control
Rotating and Sticky Solve Opposite Problems
This is the choice that matters most and the one listings describe least clearly. Neither setting is better; they fail in different directions.
| Rotating | Sticky | |
|---|---|---|
| What happens | A different address on each request, or on a short cycle. | The same address held for a set period, so a sequence of requests looks like one visitor. |
| Good for | Many independent reads where nothing needs to remember you. | Anything with a login or a session, where changing address mid-way looks like the account moved country. |
| How it fails | A logged-in session breaks halfway through, and the failure reads as an account problem rather than a proxy setting. | The one address gets rate-limited or flagged, and everything behind it stops at once. |
One account, one address. Putting several accounts behind a single proxy is the cheapest way to link them together, and linking them is usually the exact outcome the proxy was bought to avoid. If you are running more than one account, budget for more than one address.
Reading the shelf
Half the Residential Shelf Is Not Residential
Measured on this site rather than asserted, and it is the most useful thing this page can tell you.
The sellers say so in their own titles
Of the listings filed under residential proxies here, close to half name Datacenter or Server in the title, most of those being rotating datacenter addresses. Fourteen are genuinely residential and three say nothing either way. The subcategory label is not the claim; the title is.
And SOCKS is the shelf vocabulary
Well over a third of live proxy listings name SOCKS in their own text and not one uses the phrase http proxy at all. If a line arrives without a scheme, socks5 is the likelier guess on this shelf, and trying socks4 next costs nothing.
Before you buy
Three Things a Proxy Listing Will Not Tell You
These are the gaps worth pricing in, because none of them is visible from the listing and none is testable afterwards either.
How many people share it
A residential address can be perfectly fast and already carrying the reputation of whoever used it before you. Shared use is the usual reason a cheap proxy works in a tester and fails at a destination, and no listing states it.
How long you keep it
A rotating proxy hands you a different address continuously by design. A sticky session holds one for a stated period. If the listing does not say which, assume rotating, because that is the cheaper thing to sell.
What happens when it dies
Addresses go away. What matters is whether you are given a replacement or a refund, and the warranty on the listing is where that is decided, not the product description.
Country control
What Targeting a Country Does and Does Not Buy
Country selection is the feature listings lead with and the one most often over-read.
It sets where the address is registered
That is a real and useful thing: it decides what a site thinks your location is, which content you are served and which regional rules apply to you. It is worth paying for when the destination cares about geography.
It does not make the address clean
A residential address in the right country can already be flagged from somebody else's traffic, and nothing in the listing or in any tester will tell you. Country is a property of the address, not a statement about its history.
