explodingbarrel

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   by explodingbarrel 14y ago

   And also, If shit really hits the fan, its not a bad idea to make sure you have a OpenVPN tunnel ready on each server. This will allow to get connectivity between old and new instances if you can't update the security groups due to the API
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   by explodingbarrel 14y ago

   That's also the beauty of Rightscale. If you do everything correctly you should be able to provision a new server in another region if need be or even another cloud (ie Rackspace). Most outages of AWS don't last more than a few hours. The r
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   by explodingbarrel 14y ago

   We run a few decent sized social games and we have survived all the major AWS region outages in the past year. He's what we do and what I would suggest. 1. Use Rightscale. You can get away with the free edition, but for $500/month the basic