date_created: Sunday, August 28th 2022, 10:00:38 pm
date_modified: Sunday, August 28th 2022, 10:00:41 pm
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"Self-hosted" refers to running software [[server]] applications on infrastructure that you manage to some extent, as opposed to managed [[SaaS]] applications.
Self-hosting and [[Homelab|homelabs]] go hand-in-hand, but you can self-host on Infra- or Platform-as-a-service providers like AWS, Fly.io, Digital Ocean, Heroku, etc.