for small applications which is 99% of the applications out there - one main and a couple of replicas for redudancy. Would that be distributed systems ? then a

for small applications which is 99% of the applications out there - one main and a couple of replicas for redudancy. Would that be distributed systems ? then also there's one thing -- let it fail. lots of things in the world fail occassionally or go down without real consequences. we seem to have forgotten that part.