[b3lvedere]

Rotting, sweaty human hands and fire to name a few.

[alt227]

Pretty sure fire is a risk to servers as well.

[e28eta]

Servers make it easier to keep & maintain duplicate data in separate locations, which’ll be unlikely to be affected by the same fire.

[alt227]

Yeah, so does photocopying. The threats you are listing are identical to physical model.

[red-iron-pine]

only in that location.

mirror that DB onto a server on the other side of the country, or continent, etc.

[alt227]

Photocopy your documents and send them to another location, same threats same resiliance.