When you say “hosting in a cloud” vs selfhosting, I think you mean creating an account on a hosted service. Or using something like PikaPods or Fedihost or other managed hosting service. Because once again, hosting in a VPS is selfhosting.
When the majority of people talk about self-hosting they specifically talk about hosting a service on your own hardware. Not a rent on someone else’s computer…
Not “could”. It is.
When you say “hosting in a cloud” vs selfhosting, I think you mean creating an account on a hosted service. Or using something like PikaPods or Fedihost or other managed hosting service. Because once again, hosting in a VPS is selfhosting.
When the majority of people talk about self-hosting they specifically talk about hosting a service on your own hardware. Not a rent on someone else’s computer…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services)
https://www.openproject.org/blog/why-self-hosting-software/
Even Lenovo knows this shit…
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/self-hosting/
Literally no one thinks that except you. Your own sources state as much.