Managing IPs

Everything for an ISP proxy plan lives on its plan page in the panel. Open My Plans and select your ISP Proxies plan.

Placing your IPs

After you purchase, the plan page shows a location picker. ISP proxies cover 120 countries, 1,800+ cities and 900+ ISPs (ASNs).

1. Search by country, state, city, ISP name or ASN.
2. Set how many IPs you want on each city + ISP (ASN) pair. Each location shows how many IPs are available right now.
3. Save. You can place part of your IPs now and the rest later, in as many saves as you need.

A placed IP keeps its city and ISP for as long as the plan is active.

Note

If a location shows Out of stock, use its Request button to open a chat with us and ask for that city and ISP.

Credentials

Each placed IP has its own username, like us-new_york-new_york-as701-Ksj25. All usernames on the plan share one password, shown on the plan page. Every proxy connects through the same host and port, isp.shifter.io:443, over HTTP(S) or SOCKS5.

The plan page lists every username with its city and ISP. Use Copy or download the list as a .txt file, in either format:

isp.shifter.io:443:USERNAME:PASSWORD
USERNAME:PASSWORD@isp.shifter.io:443

As a proxy URL:

http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@isp.shifter.io:443
socks5://USERNAME:PASSWORD@isp.shifter.io:443

How IPs behave

Each proxy stays in the same city and on the same ISP (ASN) for the whole billing period. The IP address behind it can refresh over time, the same way a home broadband connection gets a new address from its ISP now and then. That is normal residential behaviour, and it looks more natural to target sites than an IP that never changes. Sites check location and network for consistency, and those stay the same.

Testing an IP

Run a connectivity check from your own network:

# HTTP(S)
curl -x http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@isp.shifter.io:443 \
  -w "HTTP %{http_code} in %{time_total}s\n" -o /dev/null -s \
  http://ip-info.com/json

# SOCKS5
curl --socks5-hostname USERNAME:PASSWORD@isp.shifter.io:443 \
  -w "HTTP %{http_code} in %{time_total}s\n" -o /dev/null -s \
  http://ip-info.com/json

A healthy proxy replies HTTP 200.

Next

• Use cases, strategies for allocating IPs across workflows.
• FAQ, locations, IP behaviour, refunds.