scripting.com: It's even worse than it appears

  We lost two-plus hours this morning as I scrambled to rebuild the scripting.com server.
  A mysterious outage. I tried to reboot the server over and over, and it wouldn't come back. So I created another instance, but kept making mistakes with AWS. Then after fretting and thinking of a million other ways to do it, I sat down with pen and paper and wrote down, step by step, what I thought would work. Then I did it. It worked. :-)
  Moral of the story, there are no shortcuts possible. You must pay the piper. And as Jerry once sang, so wisely:
  I know the rent is in arrears.
  The dog has not been fed in years.
  It's even worse than it appears!
  See, Jerry was a musician, but he understood programming.
  Namaste y'all!
  Still diggin.
  "cheesecake"