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Re:The web services I self-host (2022) by Arch-TK on Monday December 11, 2023 @04:45PM (#38605962)
> "Self-hosted" means "on your own hardware".

Does it? This is not the definition I've come accustomed to.

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Re:The web services I self-host (2022) by JohnFen on Monday December 11, 2023 @05:03PM (#38606122)
Until recently, I've never heard it used to mean anything else. If you're running your stuff in the cloud, wouldn't that be "cloud-hosted"?

If "self-hosted" now includes cloud-hosted, then what should we call things that are actually self-hosted? The distinction matters. We should have a term.

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