Residential Proxies for Website Monitoring

Most websites need no proxy at all. Some block monitoring from data centres and return errors or empty pages. Enterprise and Ultimate include residential proxies and unblock most of those sites automatically. PageCrawl Relay and your own proxies work on every plan, and Web Unblocker covers the few sites that block everything else.

For business monitoring, choose Enterprise or Ultimate: the residential proxies are included and need no setup. For a personal project on a small budget, run PageCrawl Relay on a computer you keep online. If you already pay a proxy provider, add those proxies as a Proxy Pool. Keep Web Unblocker for the few pages nothing else opens.

Yes. Relay has no PageCrawl fee on any plan, including Free and Standard. Keep a computer online and use its connection for your monitors. Your own bandwidth and electricity costs, and your plan's monitoring limits, still apply. Read the Relay setup guide.

Yes. Relay only makes an outgoing, encrypted connection to PageCrawl. It does not open a port that other devices on your network or the internet can reach, so nothing changes on your router.

• Only your own monitors use it. Every check gets its own short-lived permission that works for your account alone and is withdrawn when the check ends.
• It refuses to reach your router, printer, NAS or any other device on your home or office network, and only visits public websites.
• HTTPS pages stay encrypted between PageCrawl and the website, so the computer running Relay passes the traffic along without reading it.
• You stay in control: pause it at any time, set a monthly data limit, and see a list of recent connections and refused requests.
• It is open source, so you can read exactly what it does or build it yourself.

How Relay keeps your network private and the Relay security documentation cover the details.

For business monitoring, we recommend Enterprise or Ultimate, whose residential proxies need no computer to keep running. Relay suits personal projects and small budgets, since you keep the computer and its connection online yourself. It remains available on every plan.

Enterprise and Ultimate include residential proxies. Web Unblocker is available on those plans as optional paid bandwidth at $10/GB. PageCrawl Relay and your own proxies work on every plan, including Free and Standard.

A simple text page uses about 0.5 MB per check, a standard e-commerce or news page about 2 MB, and a heavy page with many images and scripts 5 MB or more. Use the cost calculator on this page, or measure a real page, and start with 1 GB to see your actual use.

At 2 MB per check, monitoring 10 pages daily uses about 0.6 GB over 30 days, within a $10 purchase. Every 15 minutes uses about 56.3 GB, requiring 57 GB ($570). Choose the slowest frequency that meets your needs. The included residential proxies, Relay and your own proxies are not charged per GB.

No. Web Unblocker bandwidth never expires. You can buy 10 GB today and use it over the next year if needed.

Yes. Check the locations included in your plan first. Web Unblocker adds 200+ countries on Enterprise and Ultimate: select it under Location and choose a country. A relay uses the connection of the computer running it, and your own proxies use whatever locations your provider offers.

A few sites cannot be monitored at all, and no option guarantees access to every site. Send us the URLs at hey@pagecrawl.io and we will check before you buy. Web Unblocker purchases are non-refundable, so test it on one monitor with 1 GB first; unused bandwidth stays available for other monitors.