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[1]: https://www.rolando.cl/201607-1-blogging-like-its-2016.html
I'm still using Dreamweaver 8 and pushing the site to a server as static files. Unfortunately, Dreamweaver 8's static SFTP doesn't work any more, due to some Microsoft-forced change in Windows 7.
Just to echo... Amazon S3 with CloudFront. No contest. CloudFront has free SSL too. Then AWS Lambda to provide dynamic content via Javascript / API if needed. If you want to get fancy you can even attach it to your domain root (example.com vs www.example.com) using Route53. Which is impossible with many static hosts. Although that requires a hosted Route53 zone which at $2 might very well be 100x your hosting costs.…
Yeah, until someone decides they don't like you and downloads a few terabytes of data over and over. It costs about average $0.09 per GB from CloudFront out to the world, and add in the costs from S3 to Cloudfront itself.
I had a $200 bill one month due to that, and the next month went with CloudFlare (no usage based billing) and github.
I use GitHub pages with Cloudflare (free CDN + HTTPS) for simpler sites but I'm a fan of netlify.com right now. Setup is simple, atomic deploys are simple, rollbacks are simple, caching + cache invalidation + HTTPS is done for you and there's paid plans if you need passwords, form submissions and custom response headers. There's probably cheaper options compared to the paid plan at $9 a month but you have to ask your…
I use a static site generated called 'middleman' for my blog. I tested S3 deployment in the past and I must that it's not all that complicated. The PITA is that you need Cloudfront to handle SSL and if you're not using Route53 automating the upgrade process is more complex than it should be. > Can you deploy atomically? Hm, I'm not sure what atomically means in this context, S3 supports 'sync' so you basically can wr…
I've found this little tool to be a huge timesaver for Middleman deployments to S3. Just remember to gitignore your environment variables ;)
I use a cheap $5/mo Digital Ocean droplet with nginx, Nikola [0], and letsencrypt for ssl. Works great and I can expand easily if I want to add php or other wsgi apps. [0] https://getnikola.com
Similarly, I set up two OVH Public Cloud 2GB instances $3.49 (4.49 CAD) with CloudFlare in front. Having two lets me set up master-master MySQL for Ghost and other play projects.
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Zero maintenance on WordPress? What do you do? I have several updates all the time + themes and plugins. I do like WordPress though
Hosted by wordpress.com of course. Self hosting wordpress is a nightmare. I wouldn't wish that to my worst enemy.