Self-hosting might not mean what you think it means

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Bri/Dad

So tell me this, what did you think it meant?

Oh like, if you asked me out of the blue what “self-hosting” meant, I’d probably say something along the lines of “hosting my own webserver/site” or “hosting wordpress on my own domain, instead of using the hosted version of wordpress, aka wordpress.com”.

But essentially, a co-worker and I were trying to think of the term that means something like a compiler that compiles itself, and we thought we knew the word, but it turns out the phrase was “self-hosting” which is not the word we were expecting.