On 12/05/13 at 17:30 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > our "master" node on EC2. That node must never be shut down. > > Why is this? Is it because the node isn't using a persistent IP > address (I forget the correct terminology)? Just because it costs basically nothing to keep it alive, and it's more convenient that way. It's true that we could shut it down. Lucas