Comment by tim_at_ping
Comment by tim_at_ping 4 hours ago
Hello,
A (different) proxy company owner here. This sucks! Sorry that you lost out on so much bandwidth.
Feel free to reach out to me at tim@pingproxies.com and I'd be happy to get you set up on our service and credit you with 100GB of free bandwidth to help soften the blow. I'll also be able to get you pricing alittle better than you're currently on if you are interested ;)
Within the next few months we're also releasing a bunch of tools to help stop things like this happening on our residential network such as some intelligent routing logic, spend controls and a few other things.
You may also want to look into Static Residential ISP Proxies - we charge these per IP address rather than bandwidth and they often end up more economical. We work with carriers like Spectrum, Comcast & AT&T directly to get IP addresses on their networks so they look like residential connections but host them in datacenters - this way you get 99.99%+ availability, 1G+ throughput, stable IP addresses and have unlimited bandwidth.
@ everyone else in the thread; if you run a start-up and need proxies then email me - happy to credit you with 50GB free residential bandwidth + give some advice on infra if needed.
Cheers, Tim at Ping
I’m interested to know how your residential connections are sourced.
It says they’re “ethically sourced”, but it seems like malware/botnet like behavior.
Are these residential users aware their traffic is siphoned off for this purpose?