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Whenever I read about anything self-hosted, it's always about not being reliant on a single third party to provide the services you need. If you control the software and the data, you can easily move everything from one cloud provide to another or to your own hardware. Whether or not you own the hardware has no bearing on this.

> "Self-hosted" means "on your own hardware".

Does it? This is not the definition I've come accustomed to.

Until recently, I've never heard it used to mean anything else. If you're running your stuff in the cloud, wouldn't that be "cloud-hosted"?

If "self-hosted" now includes cloud-hosted, then what should we call things that are actually self-hosted? The distinction matters. We should have a term.

Can't agree more. And the article mentions that they use free tier. It is not their server for sure.

I usually understand that as "you manage it".