# Proxies

**What are they?**

Proxies are essential to sneaker botting. Proxies in simplified terms give you a new ip address and hide your local ip to prevent it from getting banned from sites. If you make too many requests on a site your local ip could get banned so proxies step in to stop this. There are two types of proxies, residential and data center.

**There are basically two different kind of Proxies:**

**a. DataCenter**

&#x20;Datacenter proxies or DCs are proxies that aren’t associated with an ISP (Internet Service Provider). Compared to residential proxies, dcs and faster but more likely to get banned. Also, some DC proxies only support shopify but there are also AIO DC proxies that support all types.

**b. Residentials**

Residential proxies are the most convenient of the two types. Resis (short for residential) are connected to an ISP (Internet Service Provider) so it makes the bot protection think you are using your local ip. These are slower but less likely to get banned. The only downside to these is that they are on a data plan. So you can make as many as you want but the more you have the more data you use.

**Where to Buy proxies**

Our recommended sites are as follows

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​[**Lucky AIO**](https://luckyaio.com/) **- Residential For a free proxy tester download** [**here**](https://www.fogldn.com/project/proxytester/)**. Always test proxies before using.**

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**Specific sites**

**Supreme -** DCs are best on Supreme if your provider works, most good providers work. Residentials are fine but slow.

**Footlocker EU and Footlocker** like to ban DC subnets a lot, a few providers work on Footlocker including the ones I mentioned above. Be careful when using DC proxies on Footlocker, don’t run for restocks and don’t set delays too low. If one of your proxies get banned, there is a risk all of the proxies you have bought get banned as Footlocker ban entire subnets, not just individual proxies. Once again, Be careful! Use a mix of countries and cities for Footlocker EU. If you are running Footlocker UK, you can run with different countries, it is not an issue. I would suggest running 50% UK proxies, 15% French proxies, 15% German proxies, 15% Dutch proxies, 5% Italian proxies. Random cities is fine. Use a mix of residential proxies and DCs to be safe, and always make the task:proxy ratio at least 1:1.5

**Mesh** (Footpatrol, Size?, JD) - For mesh sites, no DCs work, there is maybe 1 or 2 providers that work, but none that I know. Use only residential proxies with mesh, and if you have DCs that work don’t test them, they will get banned super quick. Similar to Footlocker, use a mix of countries and cities. Your task:proxy ratio should be at least 1:1, I personally run 1:2 to be extra safe since mesh hands out bans very quickly.

**Solebox** - For Solebox, some DC providers work. Like the other sites, Solebox hands bans out very quickly and I would not overuse / test with DCs. I recommend running residential proxies from EU countries like France with random cities.

**Starcow** - Starcow is a bit weird, you can run with a French VPN and no proxies (Surfshark is a good VPN) Or you can run without a VPN and use French proxies. DCs sometimes work, but make sure they are French / Paris located, I don’t know many DC providers based in France so I recommend using French residential proxies with random cities.

**Kickz/ Kickzpremium -** When running for Kickz, both residential and datacenter proxies work fine, make sure they are EU based (France preferred) and test proxies once or twice. I recommend running French and Italian IPs with random cities if using residential proxies. I suggest to use a mix of both.

**Allike -** When using Fleek to bot Allike, they don’t care about proxies, just use the quickest ones you can find. German proxies work best for me. DCs are perfect for Allike, but if you don’t have any, generate about 300 residentials proxies and filter out the quickest ones.

**Titolo -** For Titolo, run datacenter proxies, I like to also run some Swiss and French residentials in a 1:1 ratio

**Grosbasket -** Use datacenter proxies, they are the best for Gros. You can also run some residentials too, I would generate a mix of countries and cities, but DCs are the best 1:1 ratio is fine.

**Consortium -** Use datacenter proxies, I use UK DCs and they are the best, but DCs from all regions are good. For residentials generate UK, German, French and Dutch IPs from a range of cities, Ratio is 1:1. Don’t test DCs too often, you might get soft banned like I did once

**BSTN -** Use residential proxies from EU with random cities (DE is best) Filter your residentials out to find the fastest ones and use a 1:1.5 ratio. For BSTN you can try DCs, but most are banned anyway

**Courir -** Run EU DCs on Courir, FR and ES preferred. You can also run resis, I run FR and ES mixed cities for the best results and a Ratio of 1:1 is fine[\
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