[juliangmp]

> Even with our robust self-hosted option, we kept hearing the same feedback from legal and compliance teams: "Private cloud" solutions that still require Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnels don't meet their stringent requirements.

If it has a VPN tunnel to some outside server, you shouldn't really call it "self-hosted*

[Cthulhu_]

Self-hosting implies the software runs on the customer's own servers, but phone-home license checks (or analytics, or whatnot) is not unheard of.