Search results, prices, stock, ads and even whole pages change with the visitor's location. Geo-targeting is how a proxy buyer picks that location. Providers offer it in two ways:
- Per request, on a rotating pool. You add a country or city parameter, usually in the proxy credentials, and the provider picks an exit that matches.
- At purchase, on static IPs. You choose the location when you buy, and the address stays there for as long as you hold it.
On ProxyHive
ISP IPs are chosen by country, region, city and carrier, and datacenter IPs by country, region and city, at checkout. Region and city lists show what is in stock when you order. Residential has no location selection today: the pool rotates across the network. If a job needs a named city on a rotating pool, other vendors offer it and we do not; if it needs a fixed address in a named place, see ISP proxies and the locations pages.
Check that the targeting holds
Your provider's label and the target's geolocation database can disagree. After you buy, check the exit against at least one independent database:
curl -s -x http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT https://ipinfo.io/json
Then check the page you care about. For search, a local results page that shows the right city is the real test; scraping Google results covers how SERPs change with location.
Common confusion
City-level targeting is only as precise as the databases, which are often right on the country and approximate on the city. Some vendors also charge more for certain countries on residential; the pricing explainer shows how geo tiers raise the bill.