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It's worse this time, in that the old shared hosting environments (e.g. Apache with FastCGI and suexec, or nginx with fpm) were open source, and there were coun
by mwcampbell 4y ago
It's worse this time, in that the old shared hosting environments (e.g. Apache with FastCGI and suexec, or nginx with fpm) were open source, and there were countless shared hosts. The new generation of multi-tenant isolate-based JS runtimes are proprietary, and AFAIK one can count the number of hosts on one hand.
- bb010g 4y agoYou can self-host Cloudflare Workers. https://github.com/cloudflare/miniflare https://github.com/cloudflare/miniflare
- no_wizard 4y agoThis is very much specifically a developer and testing tool, not a robust runtime that is at all akin to self hosting Cloudflare Workers
- kentonv 4y agoFWIW, we'll be open sourcing the real thing in a couple months (I'm actively working on the necessary refactoring as we speak...). https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1523666343412654081 https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1523666343412654081
- gabrielizaias 4y ago> The new generation of multi-tenant isolate-based JS runtimes are proprietary That's being addressed by the new Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group https://wintercg.org/ https://wintercg.org/, driven by Deno and others.
- leodriesch 4y agoThis strives to standardize the runtimes and standard library surface but not the runtime orchestration, networking or other aspects.