[JTon]

Just curious, when people say selfhosted does it imply they control the hardware at their home? Or does buying a VM from an operator count as self hosting?

[niels_bom]

I would call both selfhosting.

[gsich]

It counts. My discriminator is the self- part. Server location is not relevant.

[anderspitman]

With the caveat that your VPS provider can access all your data should they choose to.

[yonatan8070]

Both. Selfhosting is a spectrum between renting a cheap VPS and running a small data center at home (see r/homelab for the latter)

[ktm5j]

I agree, both could be considered 'selfhosting'. But in my case I am running on hardware in my house!