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Seems like it would have been a good moment to split the database from the many web servers and reduce the single point of failure.
And get some replication in there. Even if there's not a single point of failure, if a DB instance ever goes tits-up, you'd better have a standby.
Source: I've cleaned up others' messes where they didn't.