Where you can save, and where you cannot
| Decision | Saving here |
|---|---|
| Price per gigabyte | Safe. Residential traffic is a commodity; $0.65 and $3.00 per GB can come from comparable pools |
| Buying traffic in small amounts | Safe, if it does not expire. Test with a few dollars before scaling |
| Country choice | Safe. Exotic geos are cheaper — use them when the target does not care |
| Sharing an IP across profiles | Never. Links accounts permanently |
| Free or public proxy lists | Never. Shared with strangers, often pre-banned on your target |
| Datacenter IPs for logins | Never. Hosting ranges fail before the fingerprint is read |
The whole budget question comes down to that line. Traffic is negotiable; exclusivity is not.
The setup
MoreLogin stores a proxy per profile, and the fields are the industry standard four — type, host, port, credentials:
- SOCKS5 where offered, HTTP otherwise. Authenticated only; a proxy with no password is a proxy everybody shares.
- One proxy per profile, documented so you know which addresses belong to which accounts a month from now.
- Timezone and language matched to the IP country, per profile. This costs nothing and prevents the single cheapest detection there is.
- Sticky sessions for anything logged in. If your provider rotates by default, pin the session — a country change mid-session on a live account is a hard flag.
Verify what you bought, especially at the low end
Cheap is fine; mislabelled is not, and the low end of the market is where relabelled datacenter ranges get sold as residential. It takes ten seconds to know: connect a profile and open our IP check and leak test. It prints the autonomous system and its owner, so hosting infrastructure dressed up as a home connection is unmistakable — and worth asking for your money back over.
The same page catches proxy headers on your requests and WebRTC leaking a second address, neither of which the browser's own proxy indicator shows you.
When a profile outgrows rotating traffic
Rotating residential with sticky sessions is right for registration, warm-up and short-lived profiles. The moment a profile becomes an asset — a store account, an ad account, a page with followers — it needs an address that does not change: a dedicated static residential or ISP IP, or a mobile port if the platform is strict. Paying a few dollars a month for that is not an upgrade, it is insurance on something you already built.
Full type breakdown in the residential proxy guide. Same-rules-different-menus writeups for Dolphin Anty and AdsPower.