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See, I wouldn’t call it self-hosted if you can’t actually… self-host it. Someone else’s server isn’t mine.
by chrismorgan 5y ago
See, I wouldn’t call it self-hosted if you can’t actually… self-host it. Someone else’s server isn’t mine.
- betahuhn 5y agoI totally get your point! Instead of self-hosting, you could call it a personal cloud.
- vorpalhex 5y agoMy personal cloud is the rack sitting next to me, not someone elses box that other people are also hosted on.
- Krasnol 5y agoYou are not really helping yourself if you desperately attempt changing established words in a way that it would fit your business. You just alienate people and give yourself a bad reputation people will remember you by.
- riffic 5y agocome on, let's be a bit more inclusive about the term "self-hosting". For instance, I run a few apps in Linode. I manage the virtual servers, and consider myself to be a self-hoster of these webapps (Nextcloud, Drupal, PixelFed, et cetera) These aren't necessarily my servers but at some level, they are.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoI would say your setup appears drastically more yours than Deta, however, which appears to only host apps on their own infrastructure. The software you're using is installed where you chose to put it, and can be installed in your home if you choose.
- atoav 5y agoIf you can install it on any recent Linux machine it is self-hostable. If you can't it is not.
- Saris 5y agoThe difference is you know what you set up, and could move it to another server if needed. This detaspace thing is like saying that Amazon S3 is self hosted because you can upload your own files to it.
- chrismorgan 5y agoIt does depend a bit on what you count as a “server”. I’d definitely count virtual servers where you control the software stack entirely (well, apart from ring −1), provided there’s nothing special about the hardware.