Self-Hosted on Lead DevOpshttps://lead-devops.blackdevhub.online/en/tags/self-hosted/Recent content in Self-Hosted on Lead DevOpsHugoen-USWed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What is Self-Hosted and Why It's So Popularhttps://lead-devops.blackdevhub.online/en/posts/what-is-self-hosted/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lead-devops.blackdevhub.online/en/posts/what-is-self-hosted/<p>You&rsquo;re paying for Notion, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Then Notion raises prices, Dropbox caps storage, and Google &ldquo;improves&rdquo; the Docs interface. Self-hosted is taking infrastructure into your own hands and breaking the vendor dependency loop.</p> <h2 id="definition-not-your-cloud">Definition: Not Your Cloud </h2> <p>Self-hosted means deploying and operating applications on your own servers or VPS instead of using SaaS alternatives. The server can sit at home, in a data center, or be a VM at a hosting provider—the point is that the hardware is under your control, not a third party&rsquo;s.</p>