@Edent I agree. I know some people see "self-hosting" as an extreme, and you're really only self-hosting if you can physically touch all hardware at any time. (But who provides that Internet connection, huh? By that definition you're not self-hosting, are you?)

To me too, self-hosting is about choice. Can I take what I have, put it somewhere else, and others don't notice (possibly apart from brief downtime during the transition)? If so, that likely qualifies. Whether I pay others is secondary.