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Host your own app or have it hosted remotely?

4 points by jamongkad 20y ago

jamongkad 20y ago
I was wondering what would the best move be for my web app? To have it hosted remotely? Would it depend on the nature of the app? What would put customer's minds to ease when I pitch to them? thanks!
timg 20y ago
I started off hosting remotely, but my extremely cheep hosting plan limited my CPU time excessively. Since I was behind a NAT, I had to do some proxying tricks through my provider to serve from my home computer: http://programming.reddit.com/info/1e1a7/comments/c1e4ka http://programming.reddit.com/info/1e1a7/comments/c1e4ka That certainly worked well. Now that I have more money to burn and a big site nearing launch though, I will definitely be trying out some dedicated hosting. Basically the answer is: depends how broke you are.
- eli 20y ago
  Yikes. I'd be afraid of my ISP cutting off service for TOS violations at an inopportune time.
  - timg 20y ago
    Violating what TOS? Who would ban ssh? BTW, all of the static files are still hosted on my original web host and I was using sshfs to transfer them. So the bandwidth was really minimal.
mattculbreth 20y ago
Completely depends on what you're doing--what kind of app you're building. A very good middle step is a VPS, which looks like your own server (full root, shell access) but is actually a virtual server on another box. With the latest virtualization in Linux this is a really good way to get cheap computing power. You can even get hosting companies to provide fully managed servers, which means you just give them the app and they make sure it's always running and healthy.
- eli 20y ago
  Solaris and Windows have VPS solutions too
- jamongkad 20y ago
  Will it be cheaper running my app on a virtual private server? The app I'm currently working on now is a project management app written in Rails....So since it contains project data from customers how could I pitch to them that their data would be safe?
jamongkad 20y ago
Let me rephrase my question....would you rather have your own web server for your app? Or would you rather have it hosted remotely? which is cheaper? which is better in the in long run?

4 points by jamongkad 20y ago

I was wondering what would the best move be for my web app? To have it hosted remotely? Would it depend on the nature of the app? What would put customer's minds to ease when I pitch to them? thanks!

timg 20y ago

I started off hosting remotely, but my extremely cheep hosting plan limited my CPU time excessively. Since I was behind a NAT, I had to do some proxying tricks through my provider to serve from my home computer: http://programming.reddit.com/info/1e1a7/comments/c1e4ka http://programming.reddit.com/info/1e1a7/comments/c1e4ka That certainly worked well. Now that I have more money to burn and a big site nearing launch though, I will definitely be trying out some dedicated hosting. Basically the answer is: depends how broke you are.

eli 20y ago
Yikes. I'd be afraid of my ISP cutting off service for TOS violations at an inopportune time.
- timg 20y ago
  Violating what TOS? Who would ban ssh? BTW, all of the static files are still hosted on my original web host and I was using sshfs to transfer them. So the bandwidth was really minimal.

mattculbreth 20y ago

Completely depends on what you're doing--what kind of app you're building. A very good middle step is a VPS, which looks like your own server (full root, shell access) but is actually a virtual server on another box. With the latest virtualization in Linux this is a really good way to get cheap computing power. You can even get hosting companies to provide fully managed servers, which means you just give them the app and they make sure it's always running and healthy.

eli 20y ago
Solaris and Windows have VPS solutions too
jamongkad 20y ago
Will it be cheaper running my app on a virtual private server? The app I'm currently working on now is a project management app written in Rails....So since it contains project data from customers how could I pitch to them that their data would be safe?

jamongkad 20y ago

Let me rephrase my question....would you rather have your own web server for your app? Or would you rather have it hosted remotely? which is cheaper? which is better in the in long run?