Self-hosted deployment gives you absolute control over your data. You choose where it lives. You choose who touches it. Every process runs inside your own boundary, under your own governance. No hidden APIs. No background telemetry. If something moves, you can see it in the logs because you own the logs.
Privacy by default means every service starts locked down. Network access is explicit. Data sharing is opt-in only. Authentication and encryption are baked in before the first request hits your app. This design pushes compliance and security from an afterthought to the first principle.
A self-hosted deployment makes this possible without compromise. It sidesteps vendor dependencies. It eliminates the risk of silent data exposure through shared infrastructure. It lets you harden the stack with your own security policies—code, configuration, runtime environment.