Comment by whiskey-one

I understand interconnecting Cloudflare’s network and hosting their servers by ISPs builds a beefier Internet and that’s great, but isn’t it potentially problematic for a small number of vendors to become a significant part of the network? What happens if they go out of business? Are we no worse off than before, or do we worry about equipment that’s in limbo unless purchased by another business? Or is it potentially bad but inevitable since investing in growing the Internet requires deep pockets so it will always be the bigger corporations owning large chunks of the network?

Infra like Internet cables under the ocean are to me more obvious things to be purchased by other businesses. ISP-collocated content servers that came to be due to discovered mutual benefits of content and service provider seem to me more complex in terms of managing them in the face of business changes.