Create a Simple Web Site

This explains how a cheap simple web site can be hosted by Amazon S3 using Sissle.

The first problem is to define what is meant by a cheap simple web site. I offer as an example Professional English. This site consists of approximately 8 pages each of which contains graphics and that the download page contains a small download, in total about 1.5 MB. The Forum is not hosted by Amazon S3, it is not simple, so I will restate, this site minus the forum is a simple web site. The storage and initial load costs are easy to calculate (less than 10MB, about 2 cents a year). The download costs are always the difficult bit to calculate. In the same spirit of above, this site which is commercial costs me less than $2.00 per year, if it suddenly cost me $20.00 (twenty dollars) a year, I would be extremely pleased as this would represent approximately 200,000 hits a year and I would have "made it".

You need to produce a web site using for example Kompozer, as we are doing this cheap this is free, do not download the 0.7.10 (very old) but go for 0.8b3(or later). The site should consist of html, cascade style, gif, jpe(g),... files. It can not contain php files or rely on a server database

Using Sissle
- Create a bucket "mycompany.com"
-Transfer your web site files to the above bucket.
- Set the ACL ( Access Control List) for the bucket and all content to be "public read".
Some terminology above will be new, buckets and ACLs but lets not get bogged down in technicalities. The steps above are simple.

You now have a web site at http://mycompany.com.s3.amazonaws.com/index.htm. Maybe not the most perfect address but not bad for a few dollars a year. I have had no problems,

Not So Simple

You may obtain your own address, actually fairly easy, say $10 a year for the address.

Set up a CNAME at your DNS provider, not so simple, means I have not succeeded in doing this.

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