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		Minor49er 5 months ago \| 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

johnmaguire 5 months ago [–]

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

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