Certainly. Maybe once a year, for as long as it takes for me to notice and reboot it. I can't remember it happening this year to mine, but sure, let's stipulate that it can happen.

But is that an issue? Enough to pick a distribution model for your software product that divides your customer lifetime value by ten?

If you're that worried about it, you could always take some of those profits and hire a kid to carry a pager around and do that once a year reboot for you.

Sure, but as a one man operation trying to get Google level reliability is out of the budget.