App developers - need quick advice

[GaryH-21]

I've just been quoted £6,000 to "host" a mobile app (Android and iPhone)

As far as i'm aware, hosting is for the "middleware" and only the front-end / gui gets installed on the iPhone - is this right?

this price seems crazy expensive for an app which is really pretty simple... has a few feeds, an API and the rest is just parsing a json file for content.

Does anyone have experience with this, or could recommend a place to look for app hosting? Could I use a normal server, e.g the server I host the website on?

Thanks guys

 

[GaryH-21]

how is your app communicating to the API?
in my experience these are just web URLs, and are therefore hosted on a normal webserver.

i'll be getting a new app made (or learn to do it myself!). I can't see any reason why a web server wouldn't do the trick though?... never heard of a specific app hosting server

 

[GaryH-21]

So, can I just chuck it on the same cloud server as my website will go on?