Stealth IP traffic

(This page is applicable to you only if you’re monitoring sites which require ‘stealth traffic’ – Price2Spy will automatically warn you if that is the case). If Price2Spy hasn’t warned you about such sites, then this page is not applicable to you.

In order to conduct continuous and reliable price checks, Price2Spy needs to ensure that the sites it monitors do not detect our activity.

However, if we’re monitoring hundreds of thousands of products on a site (and on certain sites we actually do), it’s very likely that the site’s administrator will grow suspicious of traffic created by our servers. That’s when they will probably try to block our traffic – and it’s our task to keep avoiding such blocks.

But, before explaining what stealth IP traffic actually is, let’s discuss a few important introductory things

Price2py uses a very flexible and cheap server architecture, which enables us to monitor thousands of products on thousands of sites, at pretty low cost
The above-mentioned technology also enables us to install new price monitoring servers in a matter of hours
However, in certain cases (with sites where our price checks are generating a lot of traffic, and where system administrators are paying a lot of attention to blocking automated traffic), that’s simply not good enough. In some cases, such sites are able to detect our traffic in a matter of minutes!
In such cases, our tactics are to avoid such bans with constant and fast changes in locations of our servers. However, the number of potential locations is not indefinite (it’s few thousands max)
However, persistent system administrators can carefully analyze their site’s traffic over a long period of time, and ban all such locations one after another. These tactics will take them a lot of time and energy, but in the end, it will pay off – eventually, they will block the majority of locations we’re using

That’s when we get to brand new technology – stealth IP traffic.

The beauty of this technique is that it makes it practically impossible for system administrators to distinguish regular Website traffic from the traffic generated by Price2Spy (in order to monitor its prices) – that’s why we call it ‘stealth traffic’. Even more beautiful – banning such ‘stealth traffic’ would be mission impossible. Not only would they have to ban millions of locations, but by doing it they would be at a strong risk of banning their regular website visitors.

However, stealth traffic comes with a much higher infrastructure price, and therefore we have introduced a limit of stealth traffic you can make (it’s calculated as MBs per day). Please note that this limit is not your regular limit of active URLs Price2Spy monitors for you – it’s a specific limit of stealth traffic (applicable only on sites requiring stealth traffic)

The calculator shown below should help you figure out how much stealth traffic you’d need.

X stealth traffic per day

Please check available price plans and their stealth traffic limits.

Or, if you’d like to add more stealth traffic to your existing priceplan (without raising the limit of total number of URLs in your account) – please let us know how much stealth traffic you think you’d need, so we can give you a tailor-made offer.

Price2Spy Enterprise package

Please note that than Stealth IP traffic limit does not apply to Enterprise Price2Spy clients. Their Stealth IP traffic has no limit. The enterprise package is ideal for large enterprises that do not have enough resources or time to continuously monitor their prices. Moreover, such clients usually have specific requirements such as custom reports/data formats. In case you share the same need, we invite you to take a closer look at our Enterprise package.