Obviously. But you get duplicate hardware, set up HA, get vendor support contracts, use multiple colors in disparit location. Cloud providers have figured this out fairly well, as we all did in the aughts. (Well, some of us anyway.) You can definitely determine that's a bunch of really annoying work and just pay a cloud provider to deal with it, or not, and go your own way. But if you want to be credible when saying that hardware fails, maybe people shouldn't use a problem from three decades ago as their example and use anything more recent?

When you get duplicate hardware, it is not "One Big Server" anymore. "Two Big Servers" at least. In September 2015, the failure rate caused by capacitors was still around 30% [1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Failure-rates-of-differe...