Hosting a static site on Amazon S3

I recently moved this blog from the bare domain, iandexter.net, to blog.iandexter.net. One side-effect of the move was that www.iandexter.net no longer resolved to the bare domain.

It also happened that I was testing Amazon Web Services, so I decided to host www on S3 (Simple Storage Service), the intent being to set a placeholder and redirect my audience (all three of them, heh) to the new blog URL.

Setting up the site on S3 is indeed simple. I just added a new bucket, named it the same as the URL, uploaded two files (index.html and favicon.ico), set the correct permissions, and revised the CNAME.


All it took was a few hours for the DNS change to propagate, et voila! I have my brand-spanking-new static site:

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