@7666 yeah, I could do that too but then you're just increasing latency and (usually) dealing with a throttled pipe to whichever cloud provider you picked to be your edge.

The one benefit it would have is moving as it makes your backend infra essentially nomadic. Right now if I move to another apartment AT&T gives me "new service" and they give me a fresh static IP allocation instead of letting me keep my old one. So if I move to a different apartment this year I have to automate updating my DNS and server configs to the new address space which is annoying but not insurmountable