I recently built a scraper site as an experiment and learned a lot.
It was built on some free hosting and after three weeks was stopped by the host due to infringing the TOS. Dunno why!
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The choice of hosts can be influenced by what you want to create and accomplish. Many photographers simply want somewhere to display their amateur photos to anyone who'll look.
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