They're using Ceph, so storage is (probably) still replicated; it's just compute that's a single point of failure. It's possible that they've got automation in

They're using Ceph, so storage is (probably) still replicated; it's just compute that's a single point of failure. It's possible that they've got automation in place so spinning up a new instance (on a VPS, do there isn't any physical work involved) is quick enough to be acceptable?