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100% this. A couple times I've considered moving my personal website to AWS, but each time I got lost in the documentation trying to keep all the different movi
by yakubin 4y ago
100% this. A couple times I've considered moving my personal website to AWS, but each time I got lost in the documentation trying to keep all the different moving parts in my head. At the end of the day managing a single VPS running debian+nginx+certbot[1] with a Gandi domain is orders of magnitude simpler.
[1]: I'm probably going to move that to FreeBSD/OpenBSD with OpenBSD's relayd+httpd+acme-client at some point, but the general idea stays the same.
- devonkim 4y agoAWS / systems professional here. I’d use something like Netlify for a personal site instead of the complexities and knobs available when using AWS S3 static site options. AWS bare is the equivalent to me of trying to use Linux From Scratch in 2012 for running a bash script in a cronjob when there’s distributions like Ubuntu out there meant to do a lot of the boring and mostly inconsequential stuff for everyone besides the highly regulated. It’s great for educational reasons but learning and productivity are usually diametrically opposed in use cases.