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If you are just doing an html5 site, then just throw your project in AWS's s3. Its easy, and not much to think about. If you are connected to a DB and have user

by sirrele 10y ago

If you are just doing an html5 site, then just throw your project in AWS's s3. Its easy, and not much to think about. If you are connected to a DB and have users I would say get an EC2 up and configure it with your needs.

dirktheman 10y ago
I'm a huge fan (and user) of AWS, but I would not recommend it if all you want to do is host an MVP website. There's quite a learning curve before you have something reliable up and running and it will cost you a lot of time before you have figured everything out... If you have the time to learn about using AWS it's totally worth it, but if all you need is to host your website somewhere I'd look for something like the smallest Linode plan and scale it up when necessary.
- dtnewman 10y ago
  I agree with dirktheman here if we're talking about hosting a non-static website. Getting setup with EC2 is a huge pain if you don't know what you are doing. I really like Heroku for simple apps, but something like Linode makes a lot of sense if you wanna have more control over the server. But I also agree with the parent comment about AWS S3 for static website. If you are setting up a static website with just HTML and CSS, S3 is the way to go. I do this for my homepage and it was very easy to setup and costs me about $0.52/month. Added benefits are that you can use Cloudfront for CDN which also offers HTTPS. Some guides: Example: Setting Up a Static Website Using a Custom Domain http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosting-custom-domain-walkthrough.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosti... Using CloudFront with Amazon S3 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/MigrateS3ToCloudFront.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer... Using HTTPS with CloudFront http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/using-https.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer... To the OP, I'm not sure what your experience level is, but if you consider yourself a beginner and you don't know what any of these terms mean, feel free to ping me if you have any questions!
  - dirktheman 10y ago
    Yeah, I run my blog on S3 with Jekyll. That's what got me into the other AWS offerings. Consider it a gateway drug :)

by sirrele 10y ago

dirktheman 10y ago

I'm a huge fan (and user) of AWS, but I would not recommend it if all you want to do is host an MVP website. There's quite a learning curve before you have something reliable up and running and it will cost you a lot of time before you have figured everything out... If you have the time to learn about using AWS it's totally worth it, but if all you need is to host your website somewhere I'd look for something like the smallest Linode plan and scale it up when necessary.

dtnewman 10y ago
I agree with dirktheman here if we're talking about hosting a non-static website. Getting setup with EC2 is a huge pain if you don't know what you are doing. I really like Heroku for simple apps, but something like Linode makes a lot of sense if you wanna have more control over the server. But I also agree with the parent comment about AWS S3 for static website. If you are setting up a static website with just HTML and CSS, S3 is the way to go. I do this for my homepage and it was very easy to setup and costs me about $0.52/month. Added benefits are that you can use Cloudfront for CDN which also offers HTTPS. Some guides: Example: Setting Up a Static Website Using a Custom Domain http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosting-custom-domain-walkthrough.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosti... Using CloudFront with Amazon S3 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/MigrateS3ToCloudFront.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer... Using HTTPS with CloudFront http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/using-https.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer... To the OP, I'm not sure what your experience level is, but if you consider yourself a beginner and you don't know what any of these terms mean, feel free to ping me if you have any questions!
- dirktheman 10y ago
  Yeah, I run my blog on S3 with Jekyll. That's what got me into the other AWS offerings. Consider it a gateway drug :)