From my understanding, homelab today is a subset of selfhosting, and means selfhosting where you have physical access to the hardware, so usually hosting at hom

From my understanding, homelab today is a subset of selfhosting, and means selfhosting where you have physical access to the hardware, so usually hosting at home. While Cloud-Hosting can be also selfhosted, but you usually use someone else hardware for it. And while the origins of each are a bit different, the usage today is in that way. We are long past the era were homelab only means experimentation and personal research at home.