In-house Crawling vs Outsourcing: Comparing the Total Cost of Ownership

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In-house crawling
Given the resource intensive nature of the process, web crawling and extraction demands high end servers that can cope up with complex tasks continuously . It goes without saying that these high-end servers would also come with a cost. The irony is that it wouldn’t make sense to invest in such servers unless you are a data extraction company yourself.
Proxy services act as your access token while accessing websites that are geo-locked or have different versions for different locations. Subscribing to a proxy service is essential if you need to get around issues like IP blocking and location specific version issues. Since the speed of data extraction will also be impacted by the quality of the proxy service, DaaS providers use expensive proxy services.
Infrastructure maintenance and Upkeep
Outsourcing
Cost per month for 5 sites and 100,000 records while crawling in-house