Right, I self-host email and have done for ten years or more, but I don’t do it out of a server at home. Does my Postfix not count as selfhosting any more?
Comment on A Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1
exu@feditown.com 5 months agoMaking the term self hosting exclusive to running stuff at home feels unnecessarily elitist. Not everyone has the space, bandwidth or family approval to run stuff at home.
You can have the term homelab if you want
Two9A@lemmy.world 5 months ago
shiftymccool@programming.dev 5 months ago
Hmmm, definitely a grey area in my mind especially with the definition of “host”. The host is where the software lives and that isn’t yours. Maybe self-managed?
lando55@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I’m ambivalent as to who uses the term and how, but a deviation from the general consensus of its definition might cause confusion for newcomers to the field who can’t make the distinction. That said, I enjoyed OPs post and appreciate the time they put into it.
Homelab on the other hand is not synonymous with self-hosted infrastructure and services, as its intended use is not for production workloads.