Hosting a Static Website on AWS S3

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Skeleton CSS

For a basic site, Skeleton is a great simple CSS template that's mobile-friendly.

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If using your own domain, use your own DNS provider (rather than AWS's Route 53) if possible, and use an ALIAS DNS record rather than a CNAME record. That gives you the option to safely use your root domain (example.com) or a subdomain (blog.example.com) to host your site without interfering with other DNS records, such as email.

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Amazon S3

There's still a place for static websites and many modern-looking websites don't need to be run on a server. Although shared hosting is cheap, there's some pros (and cons) with hosting a static website on Amazon Web Services' S3 storage service:.

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Amazon Route 53

If using your own domain, use your own DNS provider (rather than AWS's Route 53) if possible, and use an ALIAS DNS record rather than a CNAME record. That gives you the option to safely use your root domain (example.com) or a subdomain (blog.example.com) to host your site without interfering with other DNS records, such as email.

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Amazon CloudFront

No security certificate for site (unless you setup CloudFront, which adds a bit more cost).

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