Various techniques for deferred server recovery are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a notification of a fault from a host in the computing system. The host is performing one or more computing tasks for one or more users. The method can then include determining whether recovery of the fault in the received notification is deferrable on the host. In response to determining that the fault in the received notification is deferrable, the method includes setting a time delay to perform a pending recovery operation on the host at a later time and disallowing additional assignment of computing tasks to the host.