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Servers for web scraping and crawlers

What a crawler needs from a server (bandwidth, port speed, CPU for parsing) and the cheapest in-stock servers with unmetered traffic or 10 Gbps ports.

As of , the cheapest in-stock server with unmetered traffic is the Atom D525 / 4GB / 500GB HDD / 1Gbps / 100Mbps Bandwidth from Psychz Networks at €3.38/mo in Los Angeles. Next: the Atom C2350 / 4GB / 1x1TB HDD from OneProvider at €7.49/mo in Amsterdam. 3,382 matching servers are in stock across all providers (prices excl. VAT).

Crawlers move a lot of data and spend most of their CPU on TLS, decompression and parsing. On the big clouds the traffic alone can cost more than the machine. On dedicated servers with unmetered ports it is included.

What to look for

  • Unmetered traffic or a large allowance, and the port speed behind it.
  • Enough cores for parallel fetchers and parsing; RAM matters less unless you render pages in headless browsers.
  • Fair-use and abuse policies. Respect robots.txt and rate limits. Providers act on abuse reports, and getting a server shut down mid-crawl is expensive.

Cheapest unmetered servers

In-stock servers with unmetered traffic

  7. #7RS 500 G12.5

    netcupVPS
    €12.49/mo
    • AMD EPYC 9645 · 2 vCPU
    • 4 GB RAM · DDR5 · ECC
    • 1x64GB NVMe
    • port speed not published · unmetered
    Stock unknown· 5 of 5 locationsEU

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10 Gbps servers

In-stock servers with 10 Gbps ports

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