Compared
Portal Hound vs residential proxies.
Proxy services sell addresses that look like someone's home, so that a login doesn't look like where it really is. That is the opposite of what a business accountable for its staff wants. Portal Hound is a gateway your company owns and can stand behind, with named identities and a log.
Side by side
| Residential and static-IP proxy services | Portal Hound | |
|---|---|---|
| Whose address is it | Rented, often someone else's home connection, shared with strangers | Your company's own fixed U.S. address, used by your staff only |
| Purpose | To make a login look like it comes from somewhere it doesn't | To give authorized staff one known, attributable company address |
| What can be reached | Anything; proxies don't care | Approved portals only; everything else is blocked on the gateway |
| Identity | None; a proxy login is shared by whoever has it | One identity per worker, tied to their computer |
| Log | Usually none you control | Every portal session, by worker and time |
| Reputation | Residential and datacenter proxy ranges are widely blocklisted | A clean address your company owns and can explain to any platform |
| Standing with platforms | Many platforms' terms prohibit proxy use outright | Transparent: your staff, your address, their own logins |
Plainly
Proxies are for
Scraping, ad verification and other work that needs many addresses. They are not an access-control product and were never meant to be.
Portal Hound is for
A company that wants its offshore staff on approved portals, under their own logins, from an address it owns, with a record it can show anyone who asks.
What it won't do
Make an unauthorized login look authorized, or get a shared account past a platform's checks. If a platform prohibits your use, a different address doesn't change that.
If you've been using proxies for staff access
Switch. The first time a platform asks why their logins come from a residential proxy range, there's no good answer.
Questions
Is Portal Hound a proxy?
Technically it uses a proxy on the gateway to carry approved portal traffic. In every way that matters to a platform or an auditor it's the opposite of a proxy service: one company-owned address, named users, an allowlist and a log.
Will platforms treat our address as a proxy?
No. It's an ordinary cloud address owned by your company, used only by your staff for your approved portals. Platforms see an office, which is what it is.
Can we use it to run many accounts on one platform?
No. Portal Hound is one company's gateway for its authorized staff. Multiple accounts on a platform are governed by that platform's rules.
Related
See it with your own portals.
Fifteen minutes with the worker app and the admin console answers most of this.