[ang_cire]

If you are using a hosting provider, you are by definition not "self hosting", since you are in fact, not hosting (unless you happen to own the hosting provider company).

I actually self-host tools, and that involves having (in my case) a couple of rackmount servers in my spare bathroom, and an rPi5 with a 4x m.2 hat on my desk. Hell, even just running stuff on your own desktop/laptop is self-hosting.

But PaaS and SaaS are just as not-self-hosted as IaaS is. It's literally cloud hosting.

[drpixie]

Yup - as they say, "the cloud" is just some else's computer.

It's not so hard to genuinely self-host. You just need a reasonable ISP who is willing to open your connection, and to be sensible about securing your systems.

[mervz]

What if I rent physical server space at a colocation? Is that "self-hosted" by your definition? I'm curious where the imaginary line is drawn.

[ang_cire]

So in other words, the colo data center is hosting the server for you, rather than you hosting it yourself?

This isn't hard, but sure, just pretend words are all nebulous and ineffable and "imaginary".

[FartinMowler]

Ba-humbug! Hosting at home on a server purchased from a vendor like Dell? That's not true self hosting either. A true Scotsman self hosts on hardware he soldered up himself. /s