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| | philiplaine.com
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| | There are a bunch of blog posts and tutorials out there showing how to setup a static website on AWS. They all offer the same general solution with maybe some caveat. Route53 for DNS, CloudFront as a CDN to speed up content delivery, S3 to store the content, and ACM as a certificate provider. A good place to start off at when embarking on a new project is AWS own reference documentation. AWS static website project is a great example of this, and it will probably do a better job conveying the required information that I ever will. The only thing I think the example lacks is setting up it certificates for CloudFront. That was the source of most of my problems when setting up my static website, the very one you are on right now. There are many Stack Overflow qu...
| | coornail.net
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| | Cloudfront enables you to host your static website via s3. You should set your root object to index.html to rewrite https://yourdomainname.com to https://yourdomainname.com/index.html for cleaner urls. However you might run into an issue of having subdirectories in your s3 bucket that you want to do the same for (for example on hosting a hugo blog). Unfortunately Cloudfront doesnt support this by default.
| | 128bit.io
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| | So, it was time for a bit of change for the blog. I have been using an older version of Jekyll for some time and upgrading for me has always been a pain. I picked to move away from Jekyll to something new, this is where Hugo comes into play. Hugo Hugo is another static site generator like Jekyll but written in Go, it boasts itself as the fastest tool of its kind but it wasn't the speed that drew me to it.
| | akashgoswami.dev
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| Build a Linktree style website and deploy it in less than 30 minutes using Hugo and the Lynx theme!