Sometimes you don’t need a full blown web hosting environment with MySQL, PHP and other dynamic components. Sometimes you just need to host a static website.
We can host static websites on one of our normal servers and support quite a large number of hits, but sometimes you may need VERY high availability service.
Examples of this include:
- Informational sites with links to many downloadable files requiring high bandwidth
- A “micro site” that is being sent out to a large number of people simultaneously requiring a large number of concurrent connections.
- Static file hosting, such as images. For example, if you have a blog with a lot of images, you can host the main site on a normal PHP server and the images on a high power system.
This is where Amazon S3 Static website hosting comes in handy.
You simply create a “bucket” in S3, create the website endpoint, choose the “index” file such as “index.html”, upload your static website and add a CNAME pointing to the URL that is given to you in the S3 control panel.
Although it’s not too hard to set up this service, we can provide assistance in establishing the initial site and helping you setup a client to upload files into the web space.
One advantage we can offer is the ability to host your static website on Amazon and still have some dynamic capabilities such as email forms, entering form data into a MySQL database, etc.
Contact us for more information and a quote on setting it up.
