PLUG: "Persistent" Cheap Servers on Amazon EC2

When using Amazon EC2, you can save up to 90% off the cost of regular, On-Demand EC2 Instances by using Spot Instances. This is great for stateless servers, but what if you run something that needs to maintain data beyond the instance's often limited lifespan? What other options do you have?

In this presentation, James will walk through his experience running a mail server using EC2 Spot Instances, the challenges faced, solutions, and plenty of SASS (Seriously Awesome Server Scripting).

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