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# Residential Introduction

## What is a residential proxy

* A residential proxy is an IP address that is used by users at home given by their ISP (Internet Service Provider)
* Residential proxies act as a home IP, whereas data centers don't. Meaning that you can bot sites like Nike, Adidas, and Supreme, websites that have lots of antibot measures.

## What is the difference between a data center and residential proxy?

* Residential proxies are slower than datacenters but have a very wide range of supported sites.

## What is the difference between sticky and rotating?

* **Sticky** proxies maintain the same IP while refreshing a website (recommended for the majority of sites) 
* **Rotating** proxies change it's IP every time it refreshes the page (recommended for Shopify monitoring)

## What are the sites supported?

* Residentials work on all sites, but the major supported ones are Supreme/Footsites/Shopify