> You can rent a virtual or dedicated server from a hosting company, and even that would be self-hosting. That's what I do. I use Linode/Akamai, which now has

> You can rent a virtual or dedicated server from a hosting company, and even that would be self-hosting. That's what I do. I use Linode/Akamai, which now has encrypted VPS instances. Ideally, I'd have my own hardware but I don't want to deal with the maintenance and failure cases (house fire, etc). I think a VPS is a solid tradeoff.