{"id":6065,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"sticky-vs-rotating-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/sticky-vs-rotating-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Difference Between Sticky and Rotating Sessions (Proxy Rotation)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What do you know about rotating and sticky sessions? If you are new to how both works, then stick around this page to discover what you need to know about the sticky and rotating sessions and how they both work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A session is a group of web requests originating from the same client software during a certain period of time. Usually, it is seen as the time between when you first send a web request to the period you stopped using that site at that time period.<\/p>\n

Your browsers handle sessions gracefully that you do not need to know the nitty-gritty of how it works, and you will not even have the need to know how it works \u2013 and I am sure you never knew the workings of the session persistence before you started using web browsers.<\/p>\n

However, if you are using proxies, the need to know the workings of a session and how it relates to rotating proxies<\/a> and sticky proxies arises as without knowing the workings, you wouldn\u2019t know which to choose.<\/p>\n

In this article, we will be taking a look at how both rotating and sticky sessions and ports work. With this knowledge, you should know when to choose between the two and which is the best for what use case.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Proxy Services<\/strong><\/td>\nSticky Session<\/strong><\/td>\nRotating Session<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthentication<\/strong><\/td>\nFilter\/Targeting<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bright Data<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n100% Self-control<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUser Pass + IP Auth<\/td>\nASN\/Cites\/Countries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smartproxy<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n30 minutes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUser Pass + IP Auth<\/td>\nCites(Only 8)\/Countries(50 USA states Geo-targeted)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Soax<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nrandom<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUser Pass + IP Auth<\/td>\nCountries\/Cities\/Region\/ISP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shifter<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n5 minutes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nUser Pass + IP Auth<\/td>\nCountries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Storm Proxies<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n3 min \/ 15 min<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nIP Auth<\/td>\nCountries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ProxyRack<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nRandom IP 3 \u2013 30 min<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUser Pass + IP Auth<\/td>\nCountries\/Cities\/ISP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HydraProxy<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n30min to 1hr<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUser Pass<\/td>\nCountries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Proxy-Cheap<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nrandom<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUser Pass + IP Auth<\/td>\nCountries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RSocks.net<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n5 minutes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nIP Auth<\/td>\nASN\/Cites\/Countries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IP Royal<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n1\/10\/30 min<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUser Pass + IP Auth<\/td>\nCountries\/Cities\/Region<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Geonode<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n5\/10\/15\/30\/60 min<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUser Pass + IP Auth<\/td>\nCountries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IP Burger<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nrandom<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUser Pass + IP Auth<\/td>\nCountries\/cities\/ASN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

At the end of the article, you should have a clear picture of both of these, including the differences between them. We would start with rotating sessions first before discussing sticky sessions.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>What are Rotating Sessions?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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When you make use of rotating proxies that change your IP address after every request, you need to know that it is not only your IP address that changes \u2013 your session is also being changed into a new session. So basically, with a rotating session, your session changes after every request. This meant that you do not have a persistent session, and as such, such sessions can\u2019t be used for account management as frequent change of session and IP address would not only require you to provide authentication details but is suspicious and more scrutiny on your accounts.<\/p>\n

Residential proxies popularized the idea of high rotating proxies that change your IP address and session after every request. This is because, in most cases, residential proxy networks<\/a> do not own their IP address and, as such, cannot provide you long sessions and IPs. However, some datacenter proxy providers have started offering rotating proxies and sessions, considering the importance and application of rotating sessions that static sessions cannot be put to.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>How Do Rotating Sessions Work?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Rotating sessions are closely related to rotating proxies, and as such, their workings cannot be explained in isolation \u2013 you will have to explain it together with the workings of rotating proxies and IPs. When using rotating proxies, requests you send do not get to the device that acts as the front or proxy for you directly \u2013 the choice of the device and IP is saddled on the proxy network.<\/p>\n

When you send a web request, and you have a rotating proxy configured, the request goes to the central proxy server. From there, the server looks into the pool and chooses, at random, an available device and its associated IP, which it then routes the request through.<\/p>\n

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When you send another request after the first one, the central proxy server will not use the first exit node (device and IP). Instead, it will make another choice at random from the pool, and as such, the IP address and session associated with each request are different \u2013 some sort of session reset happens.<\/p>\n

With a large proxy pool, rotating proxies can be effective, but with a small pool, IPs would be repeated \u2013 but sessions will not as the proxy session reset session after every request.<\/p>\n