Being an old web designer, this reminds me of early efforts at he end of the nineties with Embedded OpenType (EOT) we hosted on locally on the server. Using the Web Embedding Fonts Tool (WEFT) was a pain. It wasn't until the 2010's that Typekit and then Google Web Fonts changed the game. Hope the local hosting works out this time... Fragmentation and decentralization aren't really positive concepts in my mind.