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What I Self Host

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116 points FredrikMeyer | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 16:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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busymom0 ◴[20 Oct 25 17:00 UTC] No.45646240[source]▶
> I pay for a cheap droplet at DigitalOcean, about $5 per month, and an additional dollar for backup.

Wait, I thought self hosting meant having your own hardware at like home running all your services. Not DigitalOcean.

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rpdillon ◴[20 Oct 25 17:05 UTC] No.45646308[source]▶
I didn't realize, but apparently this is a long-standing argument. I did just a tiny bit of digging because I'm sort of into self-hosting and I ran across the selfhosted Reddit's wiki on the topic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/wiki/selfhosted

TLDR: they don't differentiate on whether you own the hardware or not.

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hunter2_ ◴[20 Oct 25 17:33 UTC] No.45646655[source]▶
Basically it sounds like IaaS is fine (even though someone else manages the hardware and restricts OS choices), and even PaaS is fine (even though someone else manages the hardware, the OS, and the configuration of interpreters such as php / node.js / python / etc.), since these let you run your own code (which can include your instance of community code). Only SaaS would be excluded, as these don't let you run your own code.
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1. pluto_modadic ◴[20 Oct 25 17:45 UTC] No.45646834[source]▶
IaaS VPS's and rented colo VMs are definitely fine. PaaS is... slightly not? it's the grey edge!

SaaS is definitely not you running stuff you control or could move anywhere.

If it's a buck standard linux box, yeah that's self hosting!