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> You would have real fun when one of your running instances shuts down on it's own

Or you could author software and systems that aren't so brittle that the loss of a single machine is problematic for you. Seriously, your engineering practices need some love if this is a problem.

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I fail to understand such arguments.

Does that imply that every single webpage in the world needs to be behind a load balancer with unwarranted amounts of redundancy in place?

And if one doesn't do that, it's ok if the site is down.

If redundancy is unwarranted, then the site can't possibly be mission critical?

Well, yes, that's exactly the point - a single site without redundancy does mean that you will get some hours of downtime every now and then; either it's ok if the site is down for such time, or extra redundancy is actually warranted.

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