Self-Hosting: Three Easy Pieces
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The act of providing or serving digital content or an online service typically delivered by a business.
The service or content is generally served locally from your own hardware. Often "self-hosters" use older Enterprise-grade hardware from their home internet connections however they also use other hosting providers hardware. This is still considered self-hosting.
While people who get into self-hosting often use their own hardware, using hosting providers help abstract away the hardware difficulties while getting you 90% of the way there.
Hosting a website is one of the lowest barrier of entry.
Media-streaming services such as Jellyfin
Game-servers such as Minecraft, Rust and Factorio are common
It’s great for learning!
Self-custody of your own data (this is limited with VPS)
Run servers/services that aren’t available as a SaaS
Get fine-grained control over your service (great for debugging personal projects)
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