My current setup makes me pretty happy in terms of having a speedy blog: Octopress + S3 + Cloudflare. Octopress will generate static HTML and use Disqus for co

My current setup makes me pretty happy in terms of having a speedy blog: Octopress + S3 + Cloudflare. Octopress will generate static HTML and use Disqus for comments: http://octopress.org/ http://octopress.org/ S3 added the ability to serve an index.html file a while ago: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/02/website_amazon_s3.html http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/02/website_amazon_s... Cloudflare will be your DNS host and CDN in one: http://www.cloudflare.com/ http://www.cloudflare.com/ (they also have a lot of other fun features) I tried Amazon's Cloudfront too, but they aren't as great with hosting static files. (especially index.html data in subfolders seem to error out for me). We also use Octopress to run a german-language podcast (http://blog.binaergewitter.de/ http://blog.binaergewitter.de/). Adding the iTunes feed and flatter support wasn't all thaaat hard. Although I still think the liquid template system is kinda weird. (Our "Octopod" fork is here: https://github.com/Binaergewitter/binaergewitter.github.com/tree/source https://github.com/Binaergewitter/binaergewitter.github.com/... , not 100% reusable though)