The services are maybe hosted by myself, but the servers aren’t mine. I’m only borrowing a small chunk of resources from some company, so can it still be considered self-hosting?
Self-hosting is just a generalized term for running your own stacks instead of just using the standard corpo stuff. It’s not a regimen or lifestyle or anything like that. Don’t worry about the terminology.
It’s self hosting. Is it home lab? Nope. Though plenty of people use VPS as a way to terminate their VPN connections and such.
That’s a good distinction, thanks
Self-hosting isn’t only just about owning the metal, but it’s also the freedom to configure things the way you want, and to be sovereign of your data.
If you’re not cycling a pedal-powered generator to run your system then is it really self-hosted? My servers only use organic transistors grown in my zen garden.
i’d argue yes. if it’s just a plain linux vps without any additional services, you’re still doing plenty of setup yourself.
Yes, that still counts
I run a hybrid: 3 VPS and a rack in the closet. I don’t get hung up about labels. I leave that to others who obsess about that sort of stuff.
It is self-hosting. But use your own servers for anything critical for privacy. Any VPS provider could snoop if they wanted to.
