Every production scraper eventually hits IP blocks. Rate limiting, geo-restrictions, and anti-bot systems all target your outgoing IP address. Rotation — cycling through a pool of IPs — is the standard countermeasure.
Cloud proxy services offer ready-made pools: datacenter IPs (cheap, fast, easily detected), residential IPs (expensive, harder to block), and mobile IPs (premium). Providers like Bright Data, Oxylabs, and Smartproxy handle pool maintenance. You pay per GB or per request.
On-premise rotation means running your own proxy infrastructure — often integrated with ScrapyKeeper, our open-source execution environment. Clients in banking, healthcare, or government prefer this for data sovereignty and compliance. You control the full chain.
Our hybrid recommendation: cloud residential for e-commerce and travel sites with aggressive blocking; on-premise datacenter IPs for internal dashboards and low-sensitivity targets; dedicated cloud scraping platforms (ScrapyHub) for burst capacity.
At Scrapy Ninja we deploy both. Our monitoring console tracks IP health, block rates, and cost per thousand pages — whether cloud or on-premise. With 1.9 million pages crawled daily across clients, rotation strategy directly impacts ROI.
