Best VPS for Web Scraping

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Web scraping is mostly network I/O and short bursts of CPU, so it doesn’t need a big VPS — it needs a reliable one with a clean, dedicated IP.

What a scraper actually needs

• Dedicated IPv4 — shared IPs are often rate-limited or blacklisted by target sites.
• Enough RAM for a headless browser — Puppeteer or Playwright needs about 1 GB alone.
• Root access to run proxies, cron jobs, and tools like Scrapy.

The pick: RackNerd 2GB

RackNerd’s 2 GB plan at $35.99/yr is the sweet spot: a dedicated IPv4, full root, and enough memory to run a headless browser plus your scraper. It’s unmanaged KVM, so you install exactly what you need.

python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install scrapy

Scale smart, not expensively

• Use a proxy pool for large jobs — one IP won’t last against aggressive targets.
• Respect robots.txt and rate-limit yourself to avoid bans.
• Schedule jobs with cron and store results locally or push them to a database.

Bottom line: a headless-browser scraper fits in 2 GB. For lightweight Scrapy or requests jobs, even the 1 GB plan at $21.99/yr works.