[davidkwast]

I do. The pros are hosting own data and have total control over stack and cloud hosting. The cons are having to code your own stack and do cloud management. I use PostGis to storage and serve vector tiles. And I use a simple backend with AWS S3 to store and serve raster data (GeoTiff COG).

[matt-p]

Respect this commitment. I think to be honest I'd only ever consider hosting a tile server if I was actually rendering data on the tiles or there was something 'special' about them (e.g style). Using $whatever hosted tiles are likely to be faster for the user as they'll be cached, served statically.

[davidkwast]

I am hosting user data from the database. It is very easy with this stack: - PostgreSQL with PostGIS - Django with MVT-tiles plugin - MapLibre