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Going by this definition a company running their services on a cluster of EC2 instances is also "self-hosting", which makes the term meaningless.

• layer8 3y ago
  See this older version of the page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020916/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting#Website_management https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020916/https://en.wikipe... The original difference was between using a service like WordPress vs. running an instance of the WordPress software yourself. Who owns the hardware it’s running on or where it is located is largely irrelevant for the definition. Here is another reference: https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/self-hosting.htm https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/self-hosting.htm