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How is running a website on S3 different from uploading your website to a shared hosting provider 20 years ago? How is it “beautiful”?
by bathtub365 7y ago
How is running a website on S3 different from uploading your website to a shared hosting provider 20 years ago? How is it “beautiful”?
- notyourday 7y agoI'm afraid you are forgetting about developers today that had never uploaded a static website to a shared hosting provider.
- jdminhbg 7y agoMy shared hosting provider 20 years ago didn't have a CDN and would fall over if I got too popular.
- anonu 7y agoThat type of hosting didnt scale. You paid a flat fee for capped CPU and bandwidth. Hosting today scales linearly in terms of resources and costs... In addition you can hook up additional AWS services as your needs arise: Add a CDN and deliver content to the edges, faster . Add lambdas to handle regular updates to content, or basic authentication when users come in. Monitor usage via Cloudwatch Add in serverless API via API Gateway - and provides users more dynamic functionality. Yes - the vendor lock-in is a major downside. Serverless isnt for everyone, neither are the big cloud vendors... YMMV.