Yo! I’ve been in the same boat. Honestly, manual rotation is a no-go for me. I use Oxylabs for my web scraping proxy pool, and their API handles rotation automatically.
For monitoring, I set up a simple script with Python and Requests to ping my proxies every hour. If one’s down, it gets replaced. Super basic but works like a charm.
Residential proxies are pricey, but if you’re scraping big sites, they’re worth it. Otherwise, datacenter proxies + good rotation should do the trick.
For monitoring, I set up a simple script with Python and Requests to ping my proxies every hour. If one’s down, it gets replaced. Super basic but works like a charm.
Residential proxies are pricey, but if you’re scraping big sites, they’re worth it. Otherwise, datacenter proxies + good rotation should do the trick.