Saying something is “self hosted” when it’s actually hosted by a cloud provider is sort of like saying something was “self coded” when it was coded by an LLM.
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Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months agoAhh, that makes sense. When I think of self hosting, I think of using your own hardware.
K3can@lemmy.radio 2 months ago
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Self hosting can be stretched to mean you’re hosting your own services on a cloud provider.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I have dabbled in that with streaming to multiple platforms via a VPS. It definitely is stretching the definition of self hosting.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been using a VPS for a while now. I still maintain it, so it’s very much like self hosting.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, it’s the same in terms of software maintence, but you aren’t doing the entirety of hosting yourself, as someone else is actually physically hosting your server. You don’t have to add HDDs when you run out of space, if that company goes down your servers go down, etc. It’s like semi-self hosting? I’m not sure what a good term for it would be.