If you want to host the applications yourself, Shiny Server is available for Linux. Again, there are paid and free options. Shiny Server is totally free and open source, which is a great credit to Rstudio. The paid version has a number of benefits. The main ones are the provision of support and extra features, particularly authentication (LDAP/PAM/Google accounts and running over SSL to encrypt data to and from the server). It also allows you to use multiple R processes to serve one application, supports multiple versions of R on the same server, and provides an admin dashboard that helps server administrators to monitor server load, concurrent connections, and so on.
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