I agree that we need to push back against centralization. But I'm not sure this incident is why. Where ever you host something, the provider may make mistakes

I agree that we need to push back against centralization. But I'm not sure this incident is why. Where ever you host something, the provider may make mistakes which causes you to be off the air for some time. It doesn't matter if a big provider makes a mistake and takes down lots of domains or if lots of smaller companies make their own mistakes and over time (together) also take down a lot of domains. If, as a user of the internet, you only care if there are cat video somewhere, then yes, having lots of small providers makes a difference. If you just need to visit one website, it doesn't matter how many other sites are down. The Dyn incident is a different story. Because there a (ddos) attack on one site, took down lots of other sites. In that case using smaller providers would have helped. But one of the features cloudflare is selling is ddos resistance. Which is something only very big players can offer.