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Two definitions of self hosted (lemm.ee)
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Disclaimer: I'm no expert on this.

I realized recently there are two common types of Self Hosters here.

  1. I work in IT and host some services for my employer so we don't have to rely on the big tech companies, for economic or other reasons.

  2. I self host some services at home or on a VPS, as a hobby or for other reasons, but nobody pays me to do that.

The answers people provide seem to vary greatly based on whether the commenter is in the #1 or #2 camp. I myself have gotten answers along the lines of, "why aren't you acting more like a paid IT person?" and it's a little off-putting.

How to resolve this? Could we refer to one group or the other differently?

Maybe I'm making a bigger deal out of this than is warranted and I'm the only one confused?

If nothing else, I will call out my hobby status from now on when posting/commenting here.

Edited to add: TIL. I'll use these terms carefully in the future. Thanks!

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Self hosted in this context is pretty well aimed at the 'I do a service on my own time and usually own gear' crowd. IT for a company is an entirely separate thing. Professional self-hosting would be more on a community like 'serveradmin'.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Professional self-hosting was the way it was done until SaaS took off over the last 20 years - we just never called it that, because it was the only way to do things at the time.

Now we say things like Cloud or On-Premise. And as another commenter proposed, call it "Private Cloud" to sound fancy (wel, it's not the same thing, but it sure sounds good!).

To my thinking, self-hosting means consumer-level hosting of services for a person, family, friends, generally at home, with VPS as an alternative server host.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 7 points 2 years ago

If I have a closet with two Raspberry Pis running Docker Swarm, it's a Private Cloud.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

On-premises. Please, for the love of god.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly, the term has been pretty well claimed by people who host things like, oh say, their own Lemmy service or such.