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Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by scrollaway on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:16PM (#16673537)
> You can use a droplet or AWS free tier, you'll just go offline in the "just in case" situation that your site gets hugged to death

Cloudflare in front with aggressive caching? What you're generating essentially is a static site, so it's safe to do that. If your S3 static site gets hugged to death, you won't go offline but you will pay an unexpectedly larger bill, so you should be setting up Cloudflare in front either way.

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Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by canttestthis on Sunday March 25, 2018 @05:54PM (#16674852)
But that's no longer (non-technical) user friendly. Ghost is on the other end where they host it for you and if you get reddit or hn hugged it's still going to take your site offline, you just won't pay for it, but you get a pretty heavy charge for the convenience. None of these solutions would work for me.
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