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Good on the author, but using a Virtual Private Server skirts very close to not self-hosting. When I read 'self-hosting', I imagined buying/building a physical
by rdoherty 3y ago
Good on the author, but using a Virtual Private Server skirts very close to not self-hosting. When I read 'self-hosting', I imagined buying/building a physical server and either putting it into a datacenter or running it in your home.
Lately I've been thinking of creating a bare-bones HTML website of my own and maybe I'll run it on a Raspberry Pi at home. I think that would qualify as 'self-hosting'.
- arter4 3y agoBetween bots and the Reddit/HN hug of death, if you ever do this don't ever advertise your website (to avoid getting DoS'd) and put some firewall in front.
- thinkingkong 3y agoMoving from a PaaS to a VPS is 95% the same amount of effort and energy as spinning you own rust under your desk. Semantics matter but holding a definition to “need to suffer a power supply failure to count” isnt really necessary.
- layer8 3y agoIt makes little difference who owns the hardware in the data center. The important thing is who selects, controls, and manages the software that runs on it. Therefore that’s the main dividing line.