Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by erikmolin on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:26PM (#26596524)

Why, if his monthly bill is 83 cents, and he values his time? Does not using a CDN impact performance in a crippling way that neither me nor the poster you're replying to understands?

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by philistine on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:29PM (#26596557)

The big gain with putting Cloudfront in front of it is you can have HTTPS.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by crazypython on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:42PM (#26596698)

HTTPS gets you better SEO and the ability to be iframe'd from HTTPS sites.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by speedgoose on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:30PM (#26597187)

And some security.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by dave_sid on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:33PM (#26596600)

And loose 30 mins of your life you’ll never get back. It’s just a person site.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by foobar33333 on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:52PM (#26597410)

Browsers will light up like a christmas tree if your site doesn't have https.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by nrmitchi on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:33PM (#26596602)

Performance maybe a little bit, but IIRC you, as the owner of the bucket, pay for bandwidth out.

Putting it being a CDN protects you (at least a little bit) from the possibility of a huge bandwidth bill at the end of the month if someone realizes they can attack your wallet directly by trying to ddos your site.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by crazypython on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:36PM (#26596631)

I agree– AWS bandwidth out is literally 100 times more expensive than CDN and VPN bandwidth out.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by sitzkrieg on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:31PM (#26597199)

indeed, not to mention generous bandwidth rates on vps providers too

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by crazypython on Saturday March 27, 2021 @04:30PM (#26605364)

*VPS

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by imgabe on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:56PM (#26598424)

It takes like 30 seconds to point a Cloudfront distribution at an S3 bucket. Maybe a couple minutes more to set up the domain.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by maest on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:35PM (#26598646)

Eh, only if you've done it before. If it's your first time, it can easily take 30 mins to an hour, if you also have to figure out how to host the website on Route 53.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by imgabe on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:43PM (#26598707)

Well, sure, but every suggestion is going to take some time if you've never done it before. It's not like it's an obscure skill that you'll never use, it's pretty handy to know.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by pgroves on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:06PM (#26596937)

I don't think it matters much b/c of the super low volume but I do have it behind Cloudflare free-tier.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by crazypython on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:36PM (#26596625)

> Does not using a CDN impact performance in a crippling way that neither me nor the poster you're replying to understands?

It adds up to 600ms of latency for each roundtrip. A modern website without link rel=preload is several roundtrips– download HTML page, then do JS requests and CSS, so that's ~1.2s of additional latency.

Because he succumbed to AWS' marketing. Surge, mentioned downthread, lets you deploy a folder for free on a worldwide CDN with virtually no setup.

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