SPSota Proxyinsotaproxy.hashnode.dev·Aug 5 · 4 min readBuilding a Proxy Failover Strategy: What Happens When Your Primary Pool Goes DownMost proxy integrations are built assuming the pool is always available, and the failure mode gets designed reactively, after the first real outage, instead of planned for upfront. Here's what an actu00
SPSota Proxyinsotaproxy.hashnode.dev·Aug 1 · 4 min readMigrating Between Proxy Providers Without DowntimeSwitching proxy providers is one of those tasks that looks like a config change and turns out to be a migration. Here's how to do it without a gap in coverage, and what breaks if you treat it as a fla00
SPSota Proxyinsotaproxy.hashnode.dev·Jul 26 · 3 min readBuild vs Buy: When Self-Hosted Proxy Rotation Makes Sense (and When It Doesn't)Every team running proxy-dependent infrastructure eventually asks whether to build their own rotation/pool-management layer instead of relying on a provider's built-in tooling. The honest answer depen00
SPSota Proxyinsotaproxy.hashnode.dev·Jul 24 · 4 min readHow DNS-over-HTTPS Silently Bypasses Your Proxy (and What to Do About It)A reader pointed out something worth a full write-up on its own: DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) can bypass your proxy's DNS resolution path entirely, even when the rest of your traffic is routed correctly. This00
SPSota Proxyinsotaproxy.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 4 min readProxy Pool Sizing: A Capacity Planning Framework for Scraping at Scale"How many IPs do I need" gets answered with a round number pulled from nowhere far more often than it gets actually calculated. Here's a framework for deriving a real number instead of guessing. The v00
