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minus-squarerisencode@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·7 months agoThere are a lot of stuff on that list that I don’t understand how it’s “self hosted” Hugo for example. It is just an application/framework to generate static websites. I guess you can self host the websites, but… It’s like saying notepad.exe is self hosted. This was just an example, but I saw several such cases.
minus-squarerentar42@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoThat example makes sense to me, because it’s an alternative to something like hosting a blog on some third party site: generate it statically and host the result somewhere.
minus-squarerisencode@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoBut… Hugo is not a self hosting solution. Hugo just makes html files, it doesn’t host anything.
There are a lot of stuff on that list that I don’t understand how it’s “self hosted”
Hugo for example. It is just an application/framework to generate static websites. I guess you can self host the websites, but…
It’s like saying notepad.exe is self hosted.
This was just an example, but I saw several such cases.
That example makes sense to me, because it’s an alternative to something like hosting a blog on some third party site: generate it statically and host the result somewhere.
But… Hugo is not a self hosting solution. Hugo just makes html files, it doesn’t host anything.