Anyone hosted a website using AWS?

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Hi all,

I have a website I am doing for my wife and as an experiment I am looking for a very cheap website host, not because I am not happy with what I have - but just want to try others.
Now I use Google and Amazon a lot but wondering if AWS is pretty good or easy to use!?

Thanks all !

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Haven’t done it myself, but technically you could deploy your static html site to an S3 bucket, which is quite okay. Seen it done by customers of mine.

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Thanks @brechtryckaert - I will look deeper into this.

I am also looking at Hostinger but so many complaints and hidden costs - but this website is basically for a few family and friends to read.

Any other names of very cheapish hosting will be appreciated.

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To be fair, why not set up a simple vps on digital ocean? It’ll cost about $6 a month and you’ll be able to host quite a few HTML based sites.

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Thanks ! - never tried anything like that - but again, I will look into it. Thanks you.

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Really for $ 6.00 a month?
I would like to see that. :slight_smile:

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There are much cheaper Hosters in Germany than $ 6 a month.

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I use ineedwebhosting.Co.Uk never had any problems and help is very good. They’re not expensive, maybe not THE cheapest, but worth a look.

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Hi Adie:

I moved over to “Pair” last year. Very happy with them and their pricing.

Rich the Weather Guy

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This is pretty old thread, but I thought I would add that I am now using AWS for my static sites. Would be nice if Blocs supported their protocol to make publishing a little slicker, but it doesn’t look like there are many of us using AWS.

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That is who I am with. Great support and has been very reliable so far.

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I’ve hosted sites on AWS before, and it can work really well with Blocs. The main thing is getting the setup right for your domain, SSL, and file hosting. Once that’s configured, the actual Blocs site is pretty straightforward to deploy.