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How to 301 Redirect a Domain With AWS S3
Properly redirecting is something that is easy to say (or request in a ticket) but not always easy to do. It just so happens that its really important for proper site behavior, particularly if you are concerned with SEO.
Here’s how you 301 redirect a site with AWS S3 in the simplest manner possible.
Sal January 19th, 2020
Posted In: AWS
How To Host a Static Web Site on AWS S3 For Almost Free
Amazon Web Services is an intimidating thing. After all, some of the largest, most active websites in the world are hosted there. But that doesn’t mean hosting a website there needs to be difficult. In fact, as AWS has matured over time and now it’s at the point where anyone with a minimum level of technical understanding can host a site using AWS.
Sal September 16th, 2019
Posted In: AWS
Tags: Amazon S3, AWS, Hosting, Route 53, Static Website
How to Restore Your Original Amazon Route 53 Name Servers
This won’t be an interesting topic for most people, but it will sure come in handy for a few of you! So you have a website setup on Route 53 and at some point in the past you pointed the name servers off to whatever your hosting solution was at the time. Now you want to do something else with that domain (maybe build a static site on S3) and you need your original Route 53 name servers back. But… what are they?
Sal July 24th, 2019
Posted In: AWS
Tags: Name Servers, Route 53
How to Use AWS Lightsail with Route 53 DNS
Amazon’s Lightsail is affordable and easy-to-use, but it comes with some serious limitations. Hidden away in the middle of an FAQ page Amazon notes that Lightsail accounts are limited to:
- 20 Lightsail instances
- 5 static IPs
- 3 DNS zones
- 20 TB of attached block storage
- 5 load balancers
Which one of these is probably going to be the most immediate problem? That’s right, the 3 DNS Zones. Don’t worry, this is easy to fix.
Sal April 18th, 2019
Posted In: AWS
Free AWS? What is AWS Free Tier and What are the Limitations?
Yes, Amazon Web Services has a free tier. This free (as in beer) stack is a 12-month program that gives developers who are new to AWS a powerful set of tools, though one that comes with some limitations. It can be seen as a gift from the massive AWS cloud or as a gateway to AWS lock-in, but either way it’s worth checking out.
Sal October 21st, 2018
Posted In: AWS
How to Add HTTPS to an S3 Static Site
So you setup build a static website hosted on Amazon S3 and you gave it a custom domain name. What’s next? HTTPS of course! Here’s a guide on how to do it in about 5 minutes. AWS makes SSL both free and easy, but it can be a little confusing the first time around.
Sal December 7th, 2017
Posted In: AWS
Tags: AWS, Certificate Manager, CloudFront, Hosting, HTTPS, Route 53, Static Website