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The path to static nirvana
Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:52 AM by Dave Winer.
  • If you're using the new static sites feature on S3 here's something to watch out for.
  • I decided over the holidays to move scripting.com to a static site running on Amazon S3.
  • A picture named accordionGuy.gifIt went pretty well, though uploading a folder with a huge number of files is something that we don't have good tools for with S3. But eventually I got it all up there, using a Firefox plug-in, called S3Fox Organizer. I had been using it for years, but forgot about it when I switched to Chrome last year. If you're managing large static S3 sites it's nice to have it around.
  • Then at the end, I had as a loose-end to do the same for www.scripting.com. I wanted to have it simply redirect to scripting.com from an S3 bucket. I thought this would be a simple matter, but it turned out to be impossible, leaving me in a tough bind that I'm still in.
    • 1. Amazon rightly requires that bucket names be unique.
    • 2. Someone has a bucket named www.scripting.com. Don't ask me why, I have no idea.
    • 3. Therefore I can't have a bucket named www.scripting.com, even though I registered the domain, a long long time ago. No one has ever had it but me.
  • I haven't tried to figure out who it is, but I probably should, and ask them nicely if they could give it up.
  • Right now I have a dynamic server running on EC2 doing the remap. But www.scripting.com gets a lot of traffic. It's the primary name the site went by until I became a fan of shorter names. :-)