Comment on Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home?
J_C___@lemmy.place 9 months ago
Selfhosting is the act of hosting applications on “hardware you control”. That could be rented or owned, its the same to us. You could go out and buy a server to host your applications but there a few issues that you might run into that could prevent you from simply standing up a server rack in your spare room. From shitty ISPs to lack of hardware knowledge there are plenty of reasons to just rent a VPS. Either way youre one of us :)
Auli@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
But you don’t control the hardware if you run it on a VPS?
J_C___@lemmy.place 9 months ago
You control the hardware you are provisioned and the software you run on it, which is enough for me. Unless you’re looking for a job in the server adminstration/maintenance field the physical hardware access component of it matters less IMO
SatyrSack@lemmy.one 9 months ago
You definitely don’t control the hardware. Someone else at some remote server farm or something does.
jaybone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Some of them offer what they call bare metal provisioning and I wonder if some even offer ILOM type access. That’s pretty much control of the hardware for me. Just that you can’t plug in a disk or a memory stick.
porksoda@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If your server has IPMI, there’s little difference between being there in person and not.