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In that case, sign up at https://ScraperWiki.com/ and put your passion to good use!

That's awesome. I also love scraping, there's just something about which I find really satisfying.

Where do you store the data? Most hosts don't seem to offer a lot of storage on their servers.

my DBs aren't that huge because I don't store all of the data I scrape, just the important stuff. I used Godaddy for awhile, but I now use 1and1. Out of all the hosts I've used over the years, 1and1 ha been the best in terms of support and up time.

They have a VPS plan with 2TB of bandwidth and you can upgrade the storage. I think my Mysql DB is currently around 20GB.