> Self hosting means hosting it yourself, not running it on Amazon.
No. I googled "self hosting", read the first few definitions, and they agree with the article, not you. E.g., wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services)
No. I googled "self hosting", read the first few definitions, and they agree with the article, not you. E.g., wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services)
> Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining a website or service using a private web server, instead of using a service outside of someone's own control.
Hosting anything on Amazon is not "using a private web server" and is the very definition of using "a service outside of someone's own control".
The fact that the rest of the article talks about "enabled users to run their own servers on remote hardware or virtual machines" is just wrong. It's not "their own servers", and we don't have "more control over their data, privacy" when it's literally in the possession of others.
> The practice of self-hosting web services became more feasible with the development of cloud computing and virtualization technologies, which enabled users to run their own servers on remote hardware or virtual machines. The first public cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was launched in 2006, offering Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as its initial products.[3]
The mystery deepens
I think we generally understand Iaas, Paas, and Saas, to be hosted offerings, managed and unmanaged...