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I have a web app that's like a bulletin board where users upload their images and such. Is it best if I host this web app on my own hardware or use a hosting site? The reason why I'm considering my own hardware is because it's my hardware which will be simple to me and something I know best, also I'll have file system access and see what the users are uploading, most hosting sites don't offer that .

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You might want to base your choice depending on what's your favourite operating system for servers. If it's on window, I would recommend self hosting as most VPS with window cost way more than linux server. Overall, depending on the resources you need, the average cost of a linux server in the cloud is around 2.50 ~ 10.00 per months and with that you have a guaranteed fix IP address.

Soooo the question is, is all the trouble of setting up your server + maintaining it + managing a fixed IP with your ISP (plus ISP charges *) worth at worst 10 box per month? Your choice!

here is a few services you might want to consider for VPS

and there is so many others.

  • As an example, my ISP charge around 100 CAD more per month just to consider my IP static and have a commercial profile for my internet.
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You are right it. Although it would be much less tedious for me, by self hosting, it's much more expenisve. So these VPS' I can install imagemagick and make my own file folders in the server after deployment and save uploads in them and such? Btw I know heroku doesn't support that (so I've read) it deletes the files upon restart and what not.
on standard VPS yes, heroku is particular if you take the smaller dynamo (free) It's more like a temporary VPS. Amazon and Digital Ocean (which I use commonly) support whatever you want to do
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You can host on VPS. It can have any operation system you want. And you control it. It is much cheaper that dedicated hosting on your hardware.

http://www.google.com/search?q=vps

If you want to host node. You have to install manually, NodeJS, and the required NPM modules.

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