Two in the Morning, Hundreds of Accounts Are Gone: It's Really Not Your Fault
You’ve definitely had this happen to you.
It's two in the morning, your phone buzzes. It's not something urgent, just an alert email. The data task that has been running for a week suddenly stops. You pull up the logs, and the screen is filled with connection timeouts and banned IPs. You groggily get up, check your code, adjust your strategy, and work until dawn, only to find that the proxy IP pool you bought dried up at that exact moment.
Or even worse. You wake up in the morning, and hundreds of your painstakingly maintained social media accounts are all flagged, with alerts of abnormal activity. Months of hard work, gone in an instant.
At times like this, you start to doubt yourself. Is my strategy wrong? Is my technical skill not good enough? Should I even be in this line of work?
As someone who has been there, I can tell you with certainty: many times, it's really not your fault.
You’ve optimized all the variables, but you overlooked the most fundamental and lethal component: the foundation beneath your feet—the proxy tool you're using and its session stability.
This term sounds technical, but it's very simple.
What do you need for large-scale data collection? You need IPs to rotate like waves, one after another, quickly. An IP sends a few requests and then a new one takes its place, making the target website believe that thousands of real users are making natural visits. This is called a rotating session. The greater your request volume, the higher the demands on the speed and number of IP rotations.
On the other hand, what do you need for managing a large number of social media accounts? The exact opposite. You need an account to use the same IP for a certain period, say thirty minutes or an hour. This simulates the behavior of a real user stably browsing the internet at home or in a café. The IP must be a real residential IP from that location. The platform's risk control sees a person using their home broadband in California to browse on their phone for half an hour at 9 AM, and everything seems normal. This is called a sticky session.
You see, these are two completely opposite needs.
Now, the question is: can the proxy service you bought distinguish between these two modes? Can it let you switch freely based on your business needs?
Most providers can't, or they’re too lazy to do it for you. They’ll just give you a huge IP pool and tell you to use it however you want. The result is that when you need rotation, it gives you one IP to use until it gets banned. And when you need stability, it jumps around—one second you're in Tokyo, the next you're in New York. Why wouldn't the platform ban you?
No matter how perfect your strategy or how brilliant your code is, it's like building a castle on quicksand. When the foundation collapses, everything falls apart.
So, stop getting up in the middle of the night to fix code, and stop doubting yourself every time an account gets banned. You need to leave the professional work to professional tools.
A truly professional proxy service, like Novada, gives you the choice. It explicitly offers both rotating session and sticky session modes.
What does this mean?
When you need to run a massive collection task, you switch directly to the rotating mode. Novada's IP pool of over eighty million will act as an inexhaustible ammunition depot, ensuring every one of your requests is cloaked in a new, clean, and real residential IP. Just max out your concurrency and let it handle the rest.
When you need to maintain those hundreds of social media accounts, you switch to the sticky mode. You can assign a sticky session to each account and set a stable connection for 30, 60, or even 120 minutes. During this time, all of the account's activities will originate from the same residential IP. It's like giving each account a stable home.
The professionalism of the tool frees you from these tormenting technical details. It lets you focus on the business strategy itself, figuring out how to optimize ad placement or write viral content, instead of being exhausted by a single IP in the middle of the night.
That is true cost reduction and efficiency. Your time and energy are far more valuable than a proxy package.
When you lay a solid foundation, your building can reach higher.