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Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents

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bityard ◴[20 Oct 25 18:49 UTC] No.45647637[source]▶
I must be missing something, this says it can be self-hosted. But the first page of the self-hosting docs say you need accounts with no less than 6 (!) other third-party hosted services.

We have very different ideas about the meaning of self-hosted.

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nl ◴[20 Oct 25 23:58 UTC] No.45650890[source]▶
You can self-host their code. I don't think there is any official definition of "self hosted" that this violates.

For example - if a "self hosted" service supports off-site backups is it self hosted or just well designed?

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1. kkapelon ◴[21 Oct 25 06:59 UTC] No.45653185[source]▶
> For example - if a "self hosted" service supports off-site backups is it self hosted or just well designed?

There is a big difference between communicating with external services (your example) vs REQUIRING external services (what parent is complaining about).

If in your example the system can run correctly with just local backups I would consider it self-hosted.