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The meaning is I install my own software and set up as I want. Some of it on my 2 mini servers in my living room, some (prosody and seafile) on a VPS. Calling t

The meaning is I install my own software and set up as I want. Some of it on my 2 mini servers in my living room, some (prosody and seafile) on a VPS. Calling the latter not self hosted seems weird to me.

latexr 1y ago
> The meaning is I install my own software and set up as I want. That seems a bit vague. If you tell that to someone who never heard of self-hosting, they’d be excused for wondering if that means downloading from an App Store and opening the settings.
- Semaphor 1y ago
  I'd expand on it of my audience weren't HN ;) Though I guess I missed "on a server"
  - latexr 1y ago
    > I'd expand on it of my audience weren't HN ;) Fair! Not everyone on HN is a programmer, but there is overrepresentation. > Though I guess I missed "on a server" Yes, that’s what I was thinking was missing.
  - 47282847 1y ago
    A phone can be a great “server“ too.