Re:How to host your Jekyll blog on AWS EC2 [Part 1]
by 6twenty on Thursday June 06, 2013 @07:24PM
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It's not free, that's true. But it's very cheap, especially when paired with Amazon's 1-year free usage tier. But the main benefit is the added control over the web server.
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Re:How to host your Jekyll blog on AWS EC2 [Part 1]
by nelse on Thursday June 06, 2013 @07:36PM
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The main benefit you mention is the biggest disadvantage of this solution as you may need to scale it as traffic grows. You can avoid it by using S3/GH Pages.
Re:How to host your Jekyll blog on AWS EC2 [Part 1]
by 6twenty on Thursday June 06, 2013 @07:46PM
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I actually found that GitHub Pages didn't scale well at all -- during peak traffic, response times slowed to over 10 seconds. This was my main motivation for the switch. Nginx (even on a micro EC2) should be able to handle very high load without the need to scale. S3 is definitely a viable option as well (and I'm not suggesting you shouldn't use it) but I find that an EC2 was a better fit for my needs.