Ask HN: What does self-hosting mean?

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9 years ago

Out of curiosity, I went to the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting to read up on self-hosting. I run several web services on my own server and was pretty much sure the term means that, but how come the wikipedia article does not even mention this with a single word?

Searching here reveals apparently both use-cases for the term. There is a subreddit /r/selfhosted which in contrast to the wikipedia article only deals with hosting server software.

I wonder if I miss something entirely and what the connection between the two use-cases is, or is there none at all?

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