# Self-hosted PaaS without running the control plane

> Self-hosted PaaS on your infrastructure: Docker and data on your servers, while the control plane is operated for you.

> Source: https://www.application-platform.com/en/solutions/self-hosted-paas/

Self-hosted PaaS sounds like independence. Often it just means you caught a second application that also must not go down. The cleaner split is: your apps on your machines, the control plane as a service.