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IMHO, unless you own the hardware, it’s not “self-hosting”. IMHO, unless you have said hardware running in a location under your personal control (i.e. a room, building or house you either own or rent), it’s not “self-hosting”. Both of these are not unattainable, or were not so in the relatively recent past. But I will concede that it’s not always easy to distinguish in the gray zones. It’s like where you sleep. The…
You said self hosting means you own the entire stack yourself. What makes "the hardware and the physical location" anything but arbitrary in terms of that? Why is that "the whole stack"? Why is the hardware and location more important than how I, or anyone else in the world, actually accesses it, when basically all of us are relying on some external party for internet access? What justifies a line that prevents me fr…
> There's no reason to tell any of these people "you're doing it wrong".
I’m saying they’re not self-hosting. Everything else is you hearing things.
I would normally obey the rules of debate and answer your litany of questions, but I think that in this case it would not help anybody, as you already know the answers.