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docs: add a page to estimate datacenter proxy IP addresses - #3020
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Paid plans can buy extra datacenter IPs without upgrading, but the page only mentioned upgrading.
Ports the Help Center article "How many proxy IPs do I need?", scoped to datacenter proxies, the only type billed by IP count.
Apify Proxy serves more than scraping. The heuristic still counts page visits, so the unit stays pages.
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| ## Calculate the estimate | ||
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| The number of IP addresses a job needs depends on how many pages it visits on a single domain, how long it can take, and how often it repeats. Major websites need 10 times more. |
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| To estimate the number of IP addresses: | ||
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| 1. Take the number of pages the job visits on a single domain. |
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This process is hard to follow. Maybe an explicit example in each step?
| ## Examples | ||
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| | Scenario | Calculation | IP addresses | | ||
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Do these lengthy tables follow our style guide? I mean all these hyphens and spaces.
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I actually don't think we have any for tables 🤔 rendered they both look the same, but it might be good opportunity to unify this. We have mdlint accepts both styles but requires unity within a page, not project
| 1. Multiply the result by the value from the second table. | ||
| 1. If the target is a major website, such as CNN, multiply by 10. | ||
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| ## Examples |
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I think it makes sense to make it H3.
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| Each estimate depends on its assumptions: | ||
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| - The first estimate holds only if you spread the job across the whole day. A faster job needs more IP addresses. |
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What does first, second, and third refer to?
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| ## Compare the estimate with your plan | ||
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| In Apify Console, go to **Billing** > **Subscription** to see how many datacenter IP addresses your plan includes, listed under **Datacenter proxies**. For the count in each proxy group, see the **Available IPs** column on the [Proxy](https://console.apify.com/proxy/groups) page. |
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Let's start with the goal. So:
To see how many datacenter IP...
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| In Apify Console, go to **Billing** > **Subscription** to see how many datacenter IP addresses your plan includes, listed under **Datacenter proxies**. For the count in each proxy group, see the **Available IPs** column on the [Proxy](https://console.apify.com/proxy/groups) page. | ||
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| If you need more IP addresses than your plan includes: |
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I think that info deserves its own heading.
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| ## Adjust the estimate | ||
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| These are rough estimates. On some websites, they can be far off. If the job repeats without being blocked, try fewer IP addresses. If you see blocking, add more. |
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Maybe something like "suggested formulas only give you rough estimates"?
Co-authored-by: Edyta <142720610+szaganek@users.noreply.github.com>
Name the scenarios and tables the steps point at, lead the Console paragraph with its goal, and give the add-on options their own heading.
"These" opened the section with no antecedent after the heading.
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Ports the Help Center article "How many proxy IPs do I need?" as a datacenter-scoped page, checked against
apify-core,apify-proxy, and live Console. Along the way, documents the shared datacenter proxies add-on, which the datacenter page left out by mentioning only plan upgrades.