On: Static Sites on Heroku

[programminggeek]

You know, static hosting works really great on Amazon S3, as long as you don't need a .htaccess file. On all of my jekyll sites I use S3 now and there's even a jekyll-s3 gem that makes pushing your site up to S3 painless. The nice thing about using S3 is you don't have to wait for Heroku instance start up if it's not a high traffic site.

[akh → programminggeek]

We also host our static site on S3, it costs us $0.12/month. Here's how we do it: http://blog.shopforcloud.com/2012/04/how-to-host-your-site-o...

[damian2000 → programminggeek]

Found some more info here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Websit...

[jvc26 → programminggeek]

The only issue with S3 I've found is the lack of naked domain support, so you need another service for redirects to your *.domain.tld.

[ejdyksen → jvc26]

If you register your domain through NameCheap and use their DNS hosting, HTTP redirects from naked domains are included.

[tomwalker → programminggeek]

I am using S3 also and it is surprisingly easy. For a small site the cost is close to nothing.