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Minor49er on April 24, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudf...

The cloud VPS isn't self hosting if you don't own the server. It would be like saying that you self-host your email service because you opened a GMail account

radlad on April 24, 2025 [–]

So self-hosting refers to hosting the hardware, not the software? Does a colocated dedi count?

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