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Re:How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – ... by johnmaguire on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @12:19PM (#43773800)

I don't know, where do you draw the line? If I host it myself using nginx running on a VPS, does that count? Or still no, because I don't own the VPS?

What if it's a dedicated machine, colocated? What if it's at home, but I pay an ISP?

edit: Downvoted, care to explain why? I genuinely wrestle with this question. I self-host lots of services at home - and I also self-host services on a cloud VPS, which have better availability and security posture with regards to my home network for things I make public or semi-public. Some have told me this isn't "self-hosting" and I am not sure where the line is drawn.

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Re:How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – ... by Minor49er on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:15AM (#43779442)

The cloud VPS isn't self hosting if you don't own the server. It would be like saying that you self-host your email service because you opened a GMail account

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Re:How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – ... by johnmaguire on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:30AM (#43779847)

So self-hosting refers to hosting the hardware, not the software? Does a colocated dedi count?

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