What is web scraping and is it allowed on Connect Quest hosting?

Web scraping is automated extraction of data from websites using scripts (Python/requests+BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium). Common uses: price monitoring, research data collection, lead generation, and news aggregation. Connect Quest's acceptable use policy permits web scraping software hosted on their infrastructure for legal purposes — scraping your own sites, scraping publicly available data without bypassing authentication, and academic research. Prohibited uses: scraping sites that explicitly forbid it in robots.txt, bypassing rate limits or CAPTCHAs to overload target servers, and collecting personal data in violation of privacy laws. For reliable scraping on Connect Quest VPS: use rotating proxies, respect robots.txt, implement rate limiting (1-2 requests/second), set realistic User-Agent headers, and handle errors gracefully. Python stack: requests, BeautifulSoup4, Scrapy, Playwright (for JavaScript-rendered pages). Store results in PostgreSQL or MongoDB on the same VPS. Setup at connectquest.co.in.