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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 52 points 16 hours ago (45 children)

I wanted to ask where the border of selfhosting is. Do I need to have the storage and computing at home?

Is a cheap VPS on hetzner where I installed python, PieFed and it's Postgres database but also nginx and letsencrpt manually by mydelf and pointed my domain to it, selfhosting?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 60 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I would say yes, it's still self-hosting. It's probably not "home labbing", but it's still you responsible for all the services you host yourself, it's just the hardware which is managed by someone else.

Also don't let people discourage you from doing bare-metal.

[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 5 points 10 hours ago

That's actually a good point, self hosting and home lab are similar things but don't necessarily mean the same thing

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