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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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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You can write a web browser. You can write a web browser securely. It costs $100 million a year.
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Agree, but seems there is a compromise: a small number (> 1) of large infra providers, letting you have redundancy across them
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The Internet “backbone” itself, IIRC, is similarly dominated by a small number of large players
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