If the consequences of one server wedging itself is a "massive outage" and "unhappy customers", then you probably don't really care about that outage or those c

If the consequences of one server wedging itself is a "massive outage" and "unhappy customers", then you probably don't really care about that outage or those customers. If you don't have enough redundancy and alerting and automated disaster recovery to keep your customer facing shit up when one server panics, you're just relying on luck to keep your customers happy. Fire an alert, remove that server from the load balancer, and fix the problem without your customers even noticing. Or make sure if you're running a hobby-project architected platform that your customer expectations and SLAs are clear up front, and let it go down until Monday morning when you'll get around to fixing it.