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Re:Show HN: Forestry.io – A better way to host static websit... by sokoloff on Friday August 14, 2015 @05:30PM (#10063056)
My first question would be: why not just use an S3 bucket directly, with web hosting enabled?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHostin...

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Re:Show HN: Forestry.io – A better way to host static websit... by sgarg26 on Friday August 14, 2015 @05:46PM (#10063158)
It's a good question. Reminds me of the first time I heard about Dropbox - I thought, 'why not just do a rsync'?
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Re:Show HN: Forestry.io – A better way to host static websit... by sgallant on Friday August 14, 2015 @05:35PM (#10063088)
Yeah, good question. S3 is a hassle for some people (designer-types) and we're building additional services around the hosting part (form submissions, a simple CMS, etc). If you get a chance, try out the demo and let me know what you think. scottgallant[at]gmail
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