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"Self hosted" and "serverless Cloudflare" each have their attractions, but they are contradicting terms, unless I'm confused.

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Running it on cloudflare by provisioning it yourself instead of using something dedicated like wordpress or contentful.

This still makes no sense at all. Self hosting means running a program on your own machine instead of on a cloud platform such as cloudfalre.

There is an ongoing debate in the selfhosting subreddits if it's self hosted if it's not on your hardware.

Seems yes for rented servers like hetzner but gets more heated when it's about "serverless"

So what do you want to call it then? "Running on a lower level general compute abstraction with provided networking infrastructure" instead of self-hosted?

WordPress is a confusing example because they have self hosted (.org) and fully managed (.com) versions.

I think "not SaaS" sums up today's definition of "self hosted" although I could be mistaken.

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