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Fair enough, I didn't mean it as a dig against Cloudflare. It's just that you're already providing all the components, and now even giving the instructions on how to connect them, just not adding a configuration screen to do so.

It's like a pc shop that sells you a nice pre-built desktop and monitor, but instead of a VGA/HDMI cable there's a paper with instructions on where to buy one :)

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It’s not so much that we’re avoiding it, as much as we think there are more interesting things for us to accomplish. We could double down on hosting static sites, but that’s only one use case of the realm of possibilities of what we can achieve with compute on the edge with Workers. We’re excited for people to get their hands dirty, and see where else they take it.

Yes, that absolutely makes sense to me, and to continue GP's analogy - it's a 'pro PC shop', not a 'fix your computer and tell you you need a new mouse mat and thumb drive' shop.

If someone springs up and starts making money providing a static site hosting solution built on top of CloudFlare, that sounds to me like a success for CF, not a missed opportunity.

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