It would be dope if we could self-host
It would be dope if we could self-host our own resources and connect them to the worker network for e.g. self-hosted serverless function executions or something
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Mh... sometimes there are casual chats about this sort of thing... but honestly (personally) I don't see that happening 😕
Cloudflare's superpower is its network, so self-hosting things would really invalidate that 😕 (for example running JavaScript as close as possible to users, smart compute placement, etc...)
yeah it's more like
the cost 🙁
cause like, say I use your Vector DB, it's gonna cost me 2-3 times throughout the year what my own would use
and I can totally set up my own network
I have it working already with ZeroTier, but I decided I like Netbird more
so I am working on a Tunnel -> my home network for certain resources and stuff but
I truly believe the future of the internet
will be users hosting things more than companies
because it just doesn't seem like shareholders can win forever
Realistically I think you could just take the workerd executrable and run it in somewhere... but again you'd lose all the Cloudflare network benefits...
Besides some non open source resources such as bindings 😕
I mean you don't need to host everything on Cloudflare 😀 You can host the bits that make sense there, and handle anything that's going to be not a good value exchange for you elsewhere and use things like smart placement to improve the experience for your users that are making calls via workers.
I do that already 😄
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