Welcome to Byteful Blog
Read the latest news, and useful articles about proxies and ethical web data collection.
Is Web Scraping Legal?
An in-depth analysis of web scraping's legal landscape, explaining how ethical practices, privacy laws, and landmark court cases define the boundaries between legal data collection and potential privacy violations in website data extraction.
10 minutes
VPN vs. Proxy: which one should you choose?
A comprehensive comparison of proxy servers versus VPN services, explaining key differences between residential proxies, datacenter proxies, and VPN encryption for online privacy, security, web scraping, and content access needs.
10 minutes
What are Static Residential (ISP) Proxies?
Static Residential (ISP) proxies combine datacenter performance with residential IP credibility by using residential IP addresses in datacenters, offering reliable speeds and lower detection rates than standard datacenter options.
10 minutes
What are Datacenter Proxies?
A guide explaining datacenter proxies - IP addresses from datacenters rather than ISPs, offering affordable and fast connections but potentially facing detection on security-focused websites.
10 minutes
What is a residential proxy?
A detailed guide explaining residential proxies - their ability to use real IP addresses, key applications like web scraping and geo-restricted content access, and the importance of ethical proxy sourcing.
10 minutes
Byteful Rebranding, Feature Updates & Future
Since our founding in 2020, a lot has changed. What began as a one-man operation, born from a University of Leeds Enterprise Scholarship, has grown into a comprehensive proxy solution provider which has served over 25,000 customers across various industries. Today we've decided to implement a new visual identity which helps better represent our current business and ambitions.
5 minutes
