I lost the private key to one of my AWS servers after it had had a traffic spike due to blog coverage[1]. It was a toy system so it was using local storage, but

I lost the private key to one of my AWS servers after it had had a traffic spike due to blog coverage[1]. It was a toy system so it was using local storage, but then it became sort of popular. Luckily I had a process monitor set up so it managed months of uptime before something happened that I couldn't do anything to fix. [1] http://waxy.org/2008/04/exclusive_google_app_engine_ported_to_amazons_ec2/ http://waxy.org/2008/04/exclusive_google_app_engine_ported_t...