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by wongarsu 658 days ago
Then your service is offline until you fix it. For many services a completely acceptable thing to happen once in a blue moon

Most would probably get two servers with a simple failover strategy. But on the other hand servers rarely die. At the scale of a datacenter it happens often, but if you have like six of them, buy server grade stuff and replace them every 3-5 years chances you won't experience any hardware issues