If you invest some initial time into a few shell scripts your management time is very minimal and your cost savings is monumental. Another investment into a co

If you invest some initial time into a few shell scripts your management time is very minimal and your cost savings is monumental. Another investment into a couple python scripts and API access to Linode (vps provider) and you can easily auto scale on demand with the best of them. As a practical example, I run a cluster of auto scaling servers for around $500/month. The same infrastructure and traffic cost me almost $3,500 on AWS.