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But the hosting providers have physical access. You don't. They have controll you don't. You can't argue decentralization if all the nodes are owned by a couple of hosting providers.
All nodes aren't owned by a couple of hosting providers, but the plethora of hosting providers can contribute to decentralization.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization
Yep, that's the Wikipedia entry for decentralization. I've done some work editing the Monero entry.
Decentralization means we need people running monerod on their phones, laptops, at their homes, and in data centers.