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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by fortran77 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:09AM (#23809491)
If your site can be hosted on S3, with free-tier CloudFront caching, it will be under $1.00/month for a few hundred thousand views.
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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by milankragujevic on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:21AM (#23809529)
You can put CloudFlare in front and turn on forced caching for all content. I checked multiple times with @jgrahamc and he assured me (and other people) that the free tier is really free and force caching static files for website (so not massive media hosting) is allowed and OK. You can set edge cache TTL to a month and have CloudFlare keep your site appearing "up" even if the backend server is down completely.
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