> Email is federated, but everyone running and managing their own email servers is too costly, so for consumers, it migrated to large sites.
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of email servers are corporate servers, not in FANG datacenters.
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of email servers are corporate servers, not in FANG datacenters.
3-5 years ago I probably would have agreed with you. Today I'm not so sure. And even among the companies running their 'own' email servers, the physical hardware is very likely in a Microsoft/Amazon/Google datacenter.
Many are moving to Office365, and to a lesser degree, Gmail.
Microsoft is making it financially difficult to justify running your own Exchange on-prem.