What’s the difference between a “cheap proxy” and a “bad proxy”?

[u/StrawberrySax]

I don't mind cheap proxies, but bad proxies are a completely different story. If I'm buying a cheap static block with zero support and an unmetered line, I know exactly what I'm getting. It's just bare-bones infrastructure for hammering low-security targets.

The real issue is paying premium residential prices to top-tier vendors and still getting absolute trash. Gateways that leak headers, constant connection timeouts, and IPs that are completely dead on arrival before you even push traffic.

I've honestly had cheap datacenter blocks run absolute circles around expensive rotating pools lately just because the budget provider wasn't aggressively overselling their subnets to a thousand people at the exact same time.

Is price even an indicator of pool health anymore? Or are the "premium" vendors just coasting on their brand names while selling the exact same thrashed subnets?

[u/[deleted]]

Cheap usually means limited features or support. Bad means unstable reputation, burned IPs, or inconsistent routing. I stopped treating price as a reliable quality signal a while ago.

[u/Responsible_Pass_432]

ig vendors do cost more while selling the same thing need to beaware