About this blog

I've been supplying proxies to scrapers, account operators and automation teams since 2023 — which means I've spent three years watching pipelines break for the same reason: someone treated a proxy provider as infrastructure instead of a dependency.

2026 made the point brutally. The January IPIDEA takedown killed IP2World, PIA S5 and 922 S5 overnight. The June 9Proxy blackout stranded prepaid balances for weeks. Every one of those outages was survivable — with monitoring, failover and a multi-network setup.

That's what this blog is about:

• Post-mortems of provider outages and takedowns, written for engineers
• Failover patterns — provider-agnostic pools, health checks, circuit breakers
• Monitoring — knowing your egress died before your cron job does
• Scraping infrastructure that survives a vendor disappearing

No listicles, no "top 10 proxies" affiliate spam. Working code and architecture you can steal.

Tools I use

Day to day I run ProxyUniverse — residential, mobile and IPv4 across 10+ networks in one panel — because multi-network redundancy is the whole thesis of this blog. Every pattern I publish works with any provider.

Questions, war stories, weird outage data? Comments are open on every post.