{"id":146,"date":"2024-09-15T04:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanobserver.net\/?p=146"},"modified":"2024-10-02T22:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:58:30","slug":"so-were-back-with-a-new-spot-instance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/so-were-back-with-a-new-spot-instance\/","title":{"rendered":"So &#8211; we&#8217;re back &#8211; with a NEW spot instance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I haven&#8217;t posted for a few <del datetime=\"2024-09-15T03:55:58+00:00\">months<\/del> YEARS now &#8211; sorry!<\/p>\n<p>I had been running this site on a (very) basic EC2 spot instance for a while, then I found out last month that the bid price was too low and it wouldn&#8217;t start. For some reason, AWS doesn&#8217;t let you just change the bid price &#8211; you have to create an entirely new spot instance.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t that hard but if you haven&#8217;t done it for 4+ years, it&#8217;s a bit of a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I managed to get it all up and running, but it took looking at an AWS guide to get it to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I haven&#8217;t posted for a few months YEARS now &#8211; sorry! I had been running this site on a (very) basic EC2 spot instance for a while, then I found out last month that the bid price was too low and it wouldn&#8217;t start. For some reason, AWS doesn&#8217;t let you just change the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/so-were-back-with-a-new-spot-instance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So &#8211; we&#8217;re back &#8211; with a NEW spot instance!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,18],"tags":[22,21],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws","category-system-administration","category-web-servers","tag-cloud-computing","tag-server-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}