Why Rotate the Egress IP Daily? Effects on Crawlers, Accounts and Risk Control

A shared public IP saves money but comes with a real trade-off: the same egress address is shared by several instances. If one of them draws attention, the others can be affected too. Rotating the egress IP daily reduces that collateral risk.

Why rotate the IP daily?

• Once a shared IP is blocked or flagged by a target site, every user on that address is affected.
• Regular rotation spreads the risk over time instead of concentrating it on one address.
• For collection tasks that need controlled request rates, rotation helps keep the pace steadier.

What rotation affects

Rotation has side effects for anything that depends on a fixed IP:

• Third-party IP allowlists you set up yourself will break.
• Scenarios that connect by raw IP will drop.
• If you point a fixed A record at the egress IP, the domain will point at the wrong place after a rotation.

Recommended practice

• When you need a stable entry point, use DDNS so the domain follows the current egress IP.
• If you need IP allowlisting, choose a plan that includes a dedicated IPv4.
• For pure SSH or short-lived connections, public-ip:port has the least impact.

Where we stand

• Hong Kong commercial datacenter, professional operations and monitoring, with the egress IP rotated automatically every day.
• This is shared-IP pricing plus proactive risk control — the IP is not sold as a feature.
• If your workload needs a fixed IP, check first whether a plan matches it.

Next steps

• Read the port and access policy
• Need your own IP? Look for the plans marked with a dedicated IPv4 in plans and pricing
• More in the FAQ