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Re:Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback o... by krallin on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @01:39AM (#5600049)
Regarding the load time, using static HTML with a site generator would yield great results here. There really is not reason to be using PHP here.

A great option is to put it on S3 and distribute it with CloudFront.

Re:Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback o... by bradgessler on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @02:21AM (#5600163)
Re:Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback o... by tahoecoder on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:39PM (#5609708)
Thanks for those resources. Didn't know about them and they look really useful.
Re:Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback o... by espeed on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @02:05AM (#5600115)
GitHub Pages (http://pages.github.com/) with a custom domain is even easier.
Re:Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback o... by philip1209 on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @02:22AM (#5600167)
Or, combining the above two comments, Jekyll on Cloudfront with Jekyll-S3
Re:Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback o... by kintamanimatt on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @01:40AM (#5600052)
Even that might be overkill. Static files served up by Nginx would do the trick nicely. For a brochure site that isn't going to see anywhere near as much traffic in such a short period of time ever again, a CDN is even overkill.
Re:Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback o... by krallin on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @01:42AM (#5600056)
I agree that Nginx would be sufficient.

However, configuring S3 + CloudFront really isn't that much effort (I'd argue it's even simpler than Nginx).

It's not that expensive either! : ) It would probably even be within the free tier if I'm not mistaken.

Re:Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback o... by tahoecoder on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @01:54AM (#5600088)
Yeah, good call. I wasn't expecting this kind of surge so I didn't plan ahead.