LibreSoftwareWhere these services run
Every card carries a small label: "Self-hosted" or "External". It says who runs the service, and therefore what you can expect from me.
Self-hosted
The service runs on a fleet of my own: machines rented in France, at OVH, and machines that are mine outright, outside any cloud. Your data stays on them: it crosses no middleman, is sold to nobody and feeds no advertising. The whole lot is backed up regularly. If something breaks, I am the one to tell, and I am the one who fixes it.
External
I host nothing here: I am sharing a link to a service someone else runs, because I think it is good and I trust them with it. What happens there is not mine to decide, neither the uptime, nor the terms, nor what becomes of your data. I carry no responsibility for it, so read their own pages before you put anything there.
Free software and self-hosting, briefly
Free software is software whose source code is public: anyone can read it, check what it does, change it and run it themselves. Nobody can close it, or wake up one morning and change its price or its rules.
Self-hosting means running that software on your own machine rather than using a company's version of it. You gain control of your data and your independence; you lose the comfort of having nothing to maintain. It is the choice I made for everything labelled "Self-hosted".