Continuous integration testing server: hosted, own desktop, or own server

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Published on 2013-07-01T14:48:59Z Indexed on 2013/07/01 16:28 UTC
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For testing, I am planning to run a continuous integration testing. There are mainly two options: hosted, or own desktop/server. I will break it into 3 options I have:

Hosted:
- Economical, $10-20/month for a small app
- Less setup, the CI company manage all hardware and software
Desktop:
- I could just buy a simple, cheap desktop as a test server (about $500).
Used server:
- My current office is offloading some old Dell rack server (Probably dual core Xeon, which I can purchase for $50 or less

Please advise me which best serves me for a small team of 2-3 developers. Thanks.

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