[sllug-members]: Host my own, or pay someone?

[Chad]

Hello there linux fans!

I'm about 2 inches away from my 'go live' for my business (shameless
plug http://www.pauselivetv.com ).  Right now it's being hosted on a
residential dynamic Comcast IP (my home linux server).  By the time
it's actual Go Live day hits I'd like to have it hosted correctly, on
a Commercial IP.

So, I'm looking at hosting providers and Commercial ISP's.  I've not
completely decided upon these 2, but this is what I've narrowed down
to in my browsing:
Comcast Workplace vs Xmission

Here's my problem, and hopefully you great folks can help me with deciding:

I have Comcast as my home ISP, and pay ~60/month for the internet and
extremely basic analog cable TV.  That's ~4mb/sec down and ~384kb/sec
up.  Comcast workplace will give me a static IP, ~6mb/sec down and
~768/sec up, no port restrictions (though I don't have any with my
residential either), email blah, and other blah (the blah are things
that are of very little interest to me).   All at ~$110/month.  If I
went this route I'd drop my residential line, and use the Workplace
account for my home internet; meaning I'd see a new output of ~$50
additional bucks a month.
The benefit of this option:
I host my own.  I can do pretty much anything I want with my server,
including extremely niceties such as NFS'ing image directories, and
MUCH MUCH more.  I have pretty much the world as my oyster as far as
what my server includes; and what seems very important to me is
basically unlimited storage (currently capped at 750GB, due to my HD
sizes ;) ) and unlimited bandwidth.

My other option:
Minimum account I'd even consider at Xmission costs me ~$50/month.
Obviously bandwidth far exceeds that of what I'd have piped into my
house as Xmission would host it on their >450mb/sec connection.  I'm
not sure how limited I'd be with what I can do with the server, but
I'm fairly sure it wouldn't be as easily tweaked as my own home server
(it's a decent IBM eServer P4 series), at least not for the $50
package.  I do get their excellent supply of geek knowledge!  And if I
keep my residential Comcast service, and add this, I'm at ~$110/month
here too; so money washes out if I go with the $50/month hosting
package at Xmission.

So, in the end, anyone have any responses on which one to go with and
why?  Or even better, another option to throw into the mix?

I linked to the site at the beginning of this message, so hopefully
you can see what I need and see what the site requirements might match
with (with other hosting providers and such); but, basically I need at
least 2 mysql db's, Apache with PHP enabled, >/=PHP 4.x, ~300mb
storage (for now), and if possible a SSL cert.

Any ideas?  If I'm not clear on something, please ask, I'll be happy to clarify.

Thanks!

Chad