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Re: A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites

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Post by fludlight » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 2:09 AM UTC

franga2000 wrote: post #104

fludlight wrote: post #3

I'll add two more points: - Remove all non-essential scripts: ads, analytics, fonts, social, liveperson, disqus, truste, foresee, cookielaw, etc. - Scale down or omit images

Not to be "that guy", as I mostly like modern Web design, but: - and after the emergency is over, keep it that way

Sometimes I contemplate launching a copycat conglomerate like Rocket, but instead of international copies of American and Chinese ideas it would do fast, minimal bandwidth & js clones with real privacy. The main problem is that network economics are a hell of a moat.

Re: A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites

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Post by mcintyre1994 » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 6:05 AM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #92

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds like a really nice approach. Out of interest what does that sort of traffic end up costing on the Cloudflare side - presumably that's where the cost ends up here?

It's a free account on Cloudflare. Cloudflare do not charge for bandwidth... and so it's free. This whole setup is $5 per month for the hosting, though we do use Github personal and that is $7.00 per month.

That’s a pretty amazing setup for the traffic and press you were sustaining, nice!

Re: A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites

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Post by lunias » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

golem14 wrote: post #74

superasn wrote: post #48

Or just create a static HTML file and put the damn thing in a S3 bucket behind a cloudfront proxy. That site is virtually guaranteed to never go down even with insane amoumts of traffic (plus it's edge optimized so a user in new delhi won't be sending requests to your server in los angeles) edit: The whole setup takes like less than 2 minutes and can be even automated it with 2 aws cli commands.

care to write a little howto? Thanks!

I wrote a post on how I did it for my site:

https://ethanaa.com/blog/conversion-to-static-site-with-vuep...

There are follow up posts on CI / CD and search.