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  • David Veksler 81 posts 166 karma points
    Aug 06, 2016 @ 15:30
    David Veksler
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    Hosting load-balanced Umbraco with Amazon Spot Instances

    Has anyone tried using AWS Spot instances for Umbraco hosting?

    We recently hit peak traffic over 600 concurrent users, and I needed more hardware without increasing costs, especially because of this issue.

    I don't really know what I'm doing with either Umbraco or AWS, but I've been trialing Spot Instances with some success (80% cost savings per instance).

    One issue which I have yet to solve is how to handle deployments and installs: Each Umbraco node is created from an image, but the Examine cache must be rebuilt from scratch every time. Also, I use xcopy to deploy releases, but this doesn't work with Spot instances - I have to create an AMI for each release.

    Is there a way to run Umbraco & Examine from a shared drive with AWS?

    Other things which I have not figured out yet: how to add instances to the load balancer when a new Spot instance is added, and how to remove the instance when the 2-minute shutdown warning is given.

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