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I've only recently heard of jekyll but have been searching or thinking about creating a markdown based blog for a while. I first discovered it through an articl

I've only recently heard of jekyll but have been searching or thinking about creating a markdown based blog for a while. I first discovered it through an article on the obama campaign, and how they used it in combination with AWS:S3 http://kylerush.net/blog/meet-the-obama-campaigns-250-million-fundraising-platform/ http://kylerush.net/blog/meet-the-obama-campaigns-250-millio.... Jekyll is here to stay.

sudonim 14y ago
Me too. I saw that article. I had been using jekyll for a while. Then I decided to piece together how to replicate what the obama campaign did using s3 and cloudfront: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Jekyll-S3-Cloudfront-Aname-Root.html http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Jekyll-S3-Cloudfront-Aname-Root...
- parkr 14y ago
  Why would you want to pay for people to come to your site? Don't you have to pay Amazon for that bandwidth usage?
  - sudonim 14y ago
    I'm curious. Setting things like this up is my idea of fun. I use the same technique for my business. I like static site hosting, and liked the idea of things being speedy no matter where our customers are. Cloudfront does that well. As far as cost. I'm 30 and I don't like relying on free things. Github probably wont go down, but I'd still rather pay. I set that up Dec 1st, served 100k pageviews. My Amazon bill right now is $1.25 (one dollar, twenty five cents). Maybe that'll go up, but for what I'm doing, I doubt it will be that expensive.
    - parkr 14y ago
      Hm, I didn't realize it was so inexpensive. I've only ever used S3 as a CDN for a huge site with lots of images, so it was an expensive endeavor.
      - jvoorhis 14y ago
        I've run a Jekyll site from S3 with no difficulty, at a satisfactorily low hosting cost. Cloudfront takes only minutes to setup, and the costs are competitive, so I imagine it's a promising route.
  - rschroed 14y ago
    In fact for low traffic sites hosting a static site on S3 falls into Amazon's free tier.
    - danjessen 14y ago
      The great thing about jekyll is that it runs of github ... thats the main reason I'm currently building a site in Jekyll.

sudonim 14y ago

Me too. I saw that article. I had been using jekyll for a while. Then I decided to piece together how to replicate what the obama campaign did using s3 and cloudfront: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Jekyll-S3-Cloudfront-Aname-Root.html http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Jekyll-S3-Cloudfront-Aname-Root...

parkr 14y ago
Why would you want to pay for people to come to your site? Don't you have to pay Amazon for that bandwidth usage?
- sudonim 14y ago
  I'm curious. Setting things like this up is my idea of fun. I use the same technique for my business. I like static site hosting, and liked the idea of things being speedy no matter where our customers are. Cloudfront does that well. As far as cost. I'm 30 and I don't like relying on free things. Github probably wont go down, but I'd still rather pay. I set that up Dec 1st, served 100k pageviews. My Amazon bill right now is $1.25 (one dollar, twenty five cents). Maybe that'll go up, but for what I'm doing, I doubt it will be that expensive.
  - parkr 14y ago
    Hm, I didn't realize it was so inexpensive. I've only ever used S3 as a CDN for a huge site with lots of images, so it was an expensive endeavor.
    - jvoorhis 14y ago
      I've run a Jekyll site from S3 with no difficulty, at a satisfactorily low hosting cost. Cloudfront takes only minutes to setup, and the costs are competitive, so I imagine it's a promising route.
- rschroed 14y ago
  In fact for low traffic sites hosting a static site on S3 falls into Amazon's free tier.
  - danjessen 14y ago
    The great thing about jekyll is that it runs of github ... thats the main reason I'm currently building a site in Jekyll.