# PowerDNS After Its Transition to Open-Xchange and Concerns About Email Centralization

DevFeed: [PowerDNS After Its Transition to Open-Xchange and Concerns About Email Centralization](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-i-did-in-2018-36596.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-i-did-in-2018/>)

Published: 2018-12-30T13:26:04Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [powerdns](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/powerdns.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [email](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/email.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>)

Tags: [diary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/diary.md>), [email](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/email.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [liberty-global](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/liberty-global.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [personal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/personal.md>), [powerdns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/powerdns.md>)

## AI overview

A personal account of PowerDNS after its transition to Open-Xchange, including the shift of day-to-day management to professional staff and the author's broader role. The article also argues that email has become less open because dominant providers can reject messages from smaller servers without explanation or recourse.

## Source excerpt

This is a more personal post than I usually write, and it was prompted by several people asking what I had been up to lately. It turns out that it is somewhat of a story. It is a long story too. Since the beginning of 2018 day to day management of PowerDNS is now truly in the hands of professionals. I'm very proud to report that PowerDNS has not only survived the transition to Open-Xchange but is actually thriving & has achieved sufficient revenues & talented staff that we've solved the famous open source "what if Bert gets hit by a bus" problem.