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There were only a handful of websites in 1992, all using CERNLIB [0] and was easy to setup. AWS is 10000x more complicated to understand and setup. [0] https:

by mycall 6y ago

There were only a handful of websites in 1992, all using CERNLIB [0] and was easy to setup. AWS is 10000x more complicated to understand and setup. [0] https://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/ https://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/

PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
That's only true if you plan to use some of the many AWS "services". Get an instance, choose some linux distro image that comes with ssh and nginx installed, start it up, configure a few files, grab an elastic IP, you're done. I set up the first public web server in the pacific northwest in 1993. It wasn't that hard, but mostly because I already admin'ed the machine(s) it ran on anyway.