It depends who you ask (which we can already tell hehe), but I’d say YES, because you’re the one running the show – you’re free to grab all of your bits and pieces at any time, and move to a different provider. That flexibility of not being locked into some provider that can suddenly take a bad turn, is what’s precious to me.
And on a related note, I also make sure that this applies to my software-stack too – I’m not running anything that would be annoying to swap out if it turns bad.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
I would say yes, it’s still self-hosting. It’s probably not “home labbing”, but it’s still you responsible for all the services you host yourself, it’s just the hardware which is managed by someone else.
Also don’t let people discourage you from doing bare-metal.
stefenauris@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
That’s actually a good point, self hosting and home lab are similar things but don’t necessarily mean the same thing
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Interesting distinction. I use a small managed vps, but didn’t consider that self-hosting, personally. I do aspire to switch to a homelab and figure out dynamic DNS and all that one day.