What if you need to scale up to more servers? What if your server gets hacked and you have to recreate it? What if you accidentally delete the server or perform

What if you need to scale up to more servers? What if your server gets hacked and you have to recreate it? What if you accidentally delete the server or perform an upgrade that completely breaks it? None of these would be an issue if you've scripted server recreation from scratch and permanent data is stored in high availability shared databases and services like S3. If you're relying on weekly backups to save your server state and customer data you're just asking for trouble. I like that Heroku recreates your server once a day to force you to do this properly.