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 [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) [![](https://img.shields.io/travis/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/master?label=link%20checks)](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/issues/2266)
 
-Self-hosting is the practice of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from [SaaSS](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html) providers.
+Self-hosting is the practice of hosting and managing applications on your own server(s) instead of consuming from [SaaSS](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html) providers.
 
-This is a list of [Free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) Software [network services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_service) and [web applications](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application) which can be hosted locally. Non-Free software is listed on the [Non-Free](non-free.md) page.
+This is a list of [Free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) Software [network services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_service) and [web applications](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application) which can be hosted on your own server(s). Non-Free software is listed on the [Non-Free](non-free.md) page.
 
 See [Contributing](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).