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  • I strongly suggest you not host your website at home unless absolutely required. Virtual servers are relatively cheap. // Your ISP will not deal with your domain. You’ll have to handle that yourself, in any case.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Jan 19, 2020 at 19:11
  • The functionality of the website requires a database. I don't think I can use my database in the application unless I have my own webserver. Could you explain why a website from home is not advised?
    – Charles Dake
    Commented Jan 20, 2020 at 2:12
  • "My own webserver" does not imply having a whole physical server – the same can be done on a VM rented from some "cloud" hosting company (such as the popular Digital Ocean, Linode, etc.). Also, even specialized website-hosting plans which don't give direct server access still almost always include some amount of SQL database service.
    – grawity_u1686
    Commented Jan 20, 2020 at 5:32
  • The website makes a lot of use of GIS functions. I need to do computations on shp files for user interaction purposes. My system right now is to use python libraries. There are other functionalities like a Prolog program to compute logical relations between predicates in my tables. I would think that a virtual server could support this functionality. I am still attracted to the idea of being my own system administrator. I once worked as a system administrator on Linux server a while ago and enjoyed it (the software engineer was the 'real' system administrator though).
    – Charles Dake
    Commented Jan 20, 2020 at 14:13
  • Even on a virtual server, you are the administrator. The difference is a vastly better connection and direct public IP access, no NAT or port forwarding. If hacked, it’s not on your sensible local network.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Jan 20, 2020 at 17:40