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I think there might be a vast gap between what what the article is talking about, and what you're suggesting. Somebody self-hosting their project management app

I think there might be a vast gap between what what the article is talking about, and what you're suggesting. Somebody self-hosting their project management app on a LAMP server on some random web hosting company is one thing. What you're talking about is something else entirely. And yes, having a web hosting company manage your server isn't "real" self hosting, for all the reasons you described, but it's a far cry from dumping all your data with a big data-guzzling giant. Your data isn't calling home, isn't being used by a company, it's sitting on your server under your control, and only you manage it. I think that's their main gripe.

lumost 5y ago
There are a few tiers of hosting providers ranging from "We rent you server space", "We rent you a physical server with internet access", too "We rent you a VM" or "We rent you services you may want to access". The privacy angle of self-hosting generally ends as soon as you are renting a physical server with internet access. Someone else has access to the hard drives, the network traffic, the hardware, and via hardware remote access the OS/Data. At this point you would need to trust the legal bindings on what the hosting company can and can't do to your physical machine. One really exciting angle on end2end encryption is that your provider may be technically incapable of any malpractice (for better or worse, I may wish my provider could have a sys eng bail me out every now and then).