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New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3

37 points by werner 16y ago

boctor 16y ago
Very cool. I want to hear more about how you would configure/convince Moveable Type (or WordPress) to put all the static files on s3. Maybe the various plugins that did this kind of caching will now start to explicitly support s3 as the backend hosting for the static html files.
- WordSkill 16y ago
  WordPress? Which static HTML files?
  - werner 16y ago
    Actually you could run wordpress with WP Super Cache enabled to generate static files.
    - riledhel 16y ago
      or any other serious cache plugin like W3 Total Cache... and configure it to automatically upload static files to the cloud.
- werner 16y ago
  Moveable Type has support for multi-site deployment through rsync (see the MT docs on rsync target, etc). After that the job queue finished MT will call rsync to upload the files to remote locations. Didn't take that much work to make it work with rs3sync instead (see http://rs3sync.net http://rs3sync.net).
  - joshu 16y ago
    I was all excited by that link but I find that it does not exist. What did you actually mean?
    - boctor 16y ago
      Maybe http://www.s3sync.net http://www.s3sync.net ?
dryicerx 16y ago
I noticed the author is still using a web server on their own for commenting.... but with something like Disqus for commenting (applied to posts client side using js) and linking out to google for searching, you can completely eliminate the need for having a web server for hosting simple blog sites.
- werner 16y ago
  Absolutely. Next steps already defined :-)
  - joshu 16y ago
    I was hoping this would happen! http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/12/blogging-tools.html http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/12/blogging-tools.html
- r00fus 16y ago
  Awesome. Static site=low/no vulnerabilities
nerdyworm 16y ago
This seems well suited for https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
- FraaJad 16y ago
  If you prefer Python, look at http://blogofile.com http://blogofile.com
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jasonjei 16y ago
Does this also work with HTTPS?
- amock 16y ago
  No https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=60821&tstart=0 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=60821&#38... .

37 points by werner 16y ago

Very cool. I want to hear more about how you would configure/convince Moveable Type (or WordPress) to put all the static files on s3. Maybe the various plugins that did this kind of caching will now start to explicitly support s3 as the backend hosting for the static html files.

WordSkill 16y ago
WordPress? Which static HTML files?
- werner 16y ago
  Actually you could run wordpress with WP Super Cache enabled to generate static files.
  - riledhel 16y ago
    or any other serious cache plugin like W3 Total Cache... and configure it to automatically upload static files to the cloud.
werner 16y ago
Moveable Type has support for multi-site deployment through rsync (see the MT docs on rsync target, etc). After that the job queue finished MT will call rsync to upload the files to remote locations. Didn't take that much work to make it work with rs3sync instead (see http://rs3sync.net http://rs3sync.net).
- joshu 16y ago
  I was all excited by that link but I find that it does not exist. What did you actually mean?
  - boctor 16y ago
    Maybe http://www.s3sync.net http://www.s3sync.net ?

dryicerx 16y ago

I noticed the author is still using a web server on their own for commenting.... but with something like Disqus for commenting (applied to posts client side using js) and linking out to google for searching, you can completely eliminate the need for having a web server for hosting simple blog sites.

werner 16y ago
Absolutely. Next steps already defined :-)
- joshu 16y ago
  I was hoping this would happen! http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/12/blogging-tools.html http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/12/blogging-tools.html
r00fus 16y ago
Awesome. Static site=low/no vulnerabilities

nerdyworm 16y ago

This seems well suited for https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll

FraaJad 16y ago
If you prefer Python, look at http://blogofile.com http://blogofile.com

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jasonjei 16y ago

Does this also work with HTTPS?

amock 16y ago
No https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=60821&tstart=0 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=60821&#38... .