Just like there's models for servers "small count of big iron" vs "large count of ephemeral VMs" there exists two models for Internet infra.
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An argument exists that concentration risk is acceptable because the costs of building reliable systems are *astronomical*.
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SMTP lets you run an email server for $1 but achieving delivery for it independently costs $1+ million a year because spam is *that bad.*
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I'd like it if there were more healthy competitors per vertical, at least...which is hard when the market wants the opposite...
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We've also established that as companies grow, they're far less likely to compete via service & support vs. e.g. marketing tactics.
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That IS obviously true by the math. Market forces, other math, show too many incentives for oligarchical routing distributions.
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