Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
Introducing Shifter's Free Web Proxy, Built on Residential IPs
Shifter Web Proxy is free: open any website through a real residential IP in any of 54 countries, with no signup, no ads and nothing to install.
James Meadow · October 8, 2026 Introducing IP Info: A Free IP Geolocation API, No API Key Needed
IP Info is Shifter's free IP geolocation and ASN API. It runs on the same database behind our proxy pools, needs no signup or API key, and is ready for AI agents.
James Meadow · September 29, 2026 Introducing Automatic Wallet Top-Up
Set a threshold and refill amount, and your Shifter wallet refills itself so usage-based charges never pause your proxies. Monthly cap, off anytime.
James Meadow · July 30, 2026 Introducing Team Workspaces on Shifter
Invite teammates into your Shifter account with three role tiers, switch between multiple workspaces from the sidebar, and keep billing scoped to who actually owns the plan.
James Meadow · June 17, 2026 Introducing the New Shifter Residential Proxies
A new gateway model with improved speed, 205M+ residential IPs, bandwidth-based pricing, and precision targeting by country, region, city, and ASN.
James Meadow · May 18, 2026 Introducing Ice Payments on Shifter
Discover seamless crypto transactions with Ice payments on Shifter. Streamline your proxy service purchases and unlock new opportunities with Ice integration.
James Meadow · February 12, 2024 ice Network: The Best Pi Network Alternative
Why users are leaving Pi Network for ice Network. The advantages of mining ice coins and what makes the opportunity more rewarding.
Matt Brown · March 21, 2023 ice Network vs Pi Network: Open Source Wins
Discover why ice Network's open-source model is more transparent & trustworthy than Pi Network's closed codebase for mining digital currencies.
James Meadow · March 1, 2023