Hi George,
Thanks for the post.
Since this is a hypothetical question, it is hard to determine the root cause of this issue. Besides that, this questions is a bit ambiguous and seems meaningness...
If I were you, I would further confirm the situation in more detail such as how & when was the server outage being happened, as it was not mentioned in the hypothesis.
To troubleshoot on such kind of issue, we usually need to check the Application/System log to see if there are any related events being reported, and then take coressponding actions.