Self-Hosting
The concept Self-hosting means hosting things yourself instead of running them under someone else’s management. Sometimes this can mean provisioning your very own VM from a cloud service, other times this may mean having your own physical device, like an old Raspberry Pi in a closet. Either way, you can then choose to host services to be used only for yourself (e.g. your own media server, NAS, IoT device hub, dashboard for the air humidity in your attic, etc.) or even to be exposed to other people through the internet (e.g. a website, live dashboard of the ISS urine tank levels, your own fediverse Mastodon node, or any other crazy idea you may have). ...