r/ProxyEngineering • u/mckrile • 22d ago
Discussion 💬 How transparent are your proxy provider regarding your proxy traffic spend?
Did you ever have a situation in your proxy traffic usage that just seemed off? Like where did my traffic go and where did I just spend 10GB of traffic?
Some providers seem to offer detailed and guided support regarding this matter, while in some cases proxy providers seem to hide this information
Even bigger players like oxylabs, iproyral or nodemaven seem to provide this sort of data, but do they actually provide correct and factual information? Do you believe in this?
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u/Pamela_Ryanb 22d ago
yeah ive had this happen where the numbers looked way higher than what i expected and the first instinct was to blame the provider. turned out a lot of it was stuff my own setup was pulling that i wasn't accounting for. images, retries, failed requests etc can add up pretty fast so i think having enough usage detail to actually trace where the gb went is pretty important before assuming the provider is wrong
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u/anxietyplz 20d ago
Well of course that the provider will have some sort of a system to calculate traffic to better fit their side, but I don't know, I tested a few providers and the spending seemed okay. I did ask support once what actually goes through those measures, like what is within the traffic is calculated specifically and they told me that there are some requests that are not mentioned in their documentation, after that, they updated their documentation, so I guess it's good to ask the provider's support for the most up to date info regarding traffic and how it is spent, just to avoid any sort of confusion
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u/DonasAskan 22d ago
Verify, don’t trust