Selfhosting is the act of hosting applications on “hardware you control”. That could be rented or owned, its the same to us. You could go out and buy a server to host your applications but there a few issues that you might run into that could prevent you from simply standing up a server rack in your spare room. From shitty ISPs to lack of hardware knowledge there are plenty of reasons to just rent a VPS. Either way youre one of us :)

Honestly I just typed Lemmy into Namecheap and saw what TLDs were available

Hello world

What sort of backend setup are you running?

Shucking is the way

Intel NUCs are a great mini PC option (while a little expensive)

Which nextcloud image do you use? I’ve been having issues with the linuxserver being kinda buggy at times (not loading file previews or not being able to close a preview without editing the URL) the app has performed pretty well but the web ui hasnt been great

One moment while I install 256 GB of ram

Also the assurance that your home instance won’t be suddenly federated from one of the major ones