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What I Self Host

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busymom0 ◴[] 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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1. bigstrat2003 ◴[] No.45652770[source]
No, it just means running the software on a server you control. That can be a physical server at home, or it can be something like DigitalOcean.