Self-host is the right term. They install and host their OS or software themselves on a VPS, NOT a homeserver or VM. Until they set it up, there is no "cloud".

Self-host is the right term. They install and host their OS or software themselves on a VPS, NOT a homeserver or VM. Until they set it up, there is no "cloud". "Cloud" IS a service, OS, etc that someone else set up and which you (pay to) use, and which that someone else ultimately has control over. So this guy wants to run the software themself (the "self-host") without the infrastructure (the VPS which they rent yearly and which they have had to install Debian or Unbuntu 22, along with git and all the other software) - AWS replaces the infrastructure, and while it is close being "the cloud" it is still different because setting it all is still up to the user. They are still in control of their own data (although I guess some rogue AWS employee could read the data).