Nearly no one is competent and able to setup a true load balancer. If you have one either it’s provided by your (most likely vm based) hosting provider or you a

Nearly no one is competent and able to setup a true load balancer. If you have one either it’s provided by your (most likely vm based) hosting provider or you are a big enterprise. If you are in one of those two categories then setting up something more robust than a single server isn’t much more complicated than a single server. That is to say, I think it very much does change the equation around the original statement.