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Why is this even on HN? It seems like a terribly confused blog post, about a terribly inefficient stack. To create any static site, including blogs, I just use
by INTPenis 3y ago
Why is this even on HN? It seems like a terribly confused blog post, about a terribly inefficient stack.
To create any static site, including blogs, I just use hugo, maybe a custom theme, edit it in any editor, including the online one at github/gitlab, once it merges/pushes the CI/CD script is just 3 lines and 2 of those deal with aws.
And of course the pricing depends on the traffic but s3 and cloudfront can handle a lot of traffic before it starts getting out of hand.
- Fethbita 3y agoHey, I do the same but using Jekyll instead of Hugo, using S3 and CloudFront, I have only been charged 0.00 so far but why do you say that the pricing would get out of hand? Isn’t CloudFront there to cache the results so that the pricing would not get out of hand? This is my blog post about how I set up my blog: https://blog.burakcankus.com/2023/04/23/getting-a-blog-running-with-jekyll-github-actions-s3-and-cloudfront.html https://blog.burakcankus.com/2023/04/23/getting-a-blog-runni...
- INTPenis 3y agoWell I'm speaking theoretically because I haven't reached that point with any of my sites. Of course you should have a budget alert in AWS first of all. But theoretically there is no such thing as a free lunch, and bandwidth costs money. Even cache hits in cloudfront generate bandwidth. A cache can't magically transfer text to your clients, it's still using transfer cost outgoing from cloudfront cache servers.
- vanjajaja1 3y agoBecause that link to ghost has a ?ref=
- diffeomorphism 3y agoIt seems that quite often the article itself is pretty irrelevant if the topic is interesting. Aka "nobody reads the article, only the headline".
- pindab0ter 3y ago> Why is this even on HN? I'm no authority on this topic, but maybe because it still sparks interesting conversations.