rioki.org goes to S3

2011-09-24

I have tried noumerous hosting solutions over the years. Up until recently, when I switched to jekyll, my requirement was a LAMP stack. I ran a number of CMS software, such as Mambo (now Joomla), Typo3, Dokuwiki or Drupal. I tried different solutions, form dedicated hosting over root servers to virtual private servers. Each solution depended on my needs, at some point I ran 5 website and a dedicated mail service. But my needs have shrunk, espceially since I dicovered jekyll.

Currently I have one website (this one) and it is fully static. This requirement especially does not warant a fully fledged VPS. For some time I ran my site off github pages. But since github does not allow jekyll plugins, the entiere thing was a big hack. So I looked for static hosting solutions. I looked into a number of "cloud storage" solutions, but none really worked for websites, save Amazon S3. So now rioki.org runs off Amazon S3; and it is blazing fast!