> VM hosted by someone else ... would still be self-hosting because I am in control of the service. A hosting vendor will have detailed "Terms of Service" by j

> VM hosted by someone else ... would still be self-hosting because I am in control of the service. A hosting vendor will have detailed "Terms of Service" by jurisdiction, self-hosting will not. > complicated to rewrite (or review) the applications ... build your own hardware from scratch There are options between those two extreme scenarios, many discussed at length in HN self-hosting threads.