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Is it really self-hosting if it is on someone else's server? This is an honest question for which I am curious about other's thoughts. I am all for Indie web.
by fm2606 4y ago
Is it really self-hosting if it is on someone else's server?
This is an honest question for which I am curious about other's thoughts. I am all for Indie web. If we all took the time to put our own content (self-hosted or not) out there it would be more like the web of yore!
Maybe I'm being too pedantic. For me a better term or statement would be "I maintain a blog/website".
I self-host at home on a RPi and I use a VPS to redirect to it. I don't do much with it. I go in fits and starts where I update and add new stuff to just letting it sit and be.
I use Kamatera for $4/month. They hooked me with there 1 month free trial!
- nullcipher 4y agoThere are various degrees to self hosting. If you say I made this bread from scratch, one can always ask if I planted the wheat plant or grounded the flour or squeezed that oil etc. The fact is still that I made this loaf of bread. Self hosting is such a term, it's a matter of degree, people just get very pedantic about this. The alternative is to not "just buy bread from amazon".
- account42 4y agoExactly, the most important step is to get your own domain so that you CAN take more control when needed. The more you do yourself the more you are prepared for if you need to take full control. Its not binary yes/no if you are selfhosting and unless you want to setup direct cables/radiolinks to everyone you want to talk to you are always relying on some kind of external service.