[Kalium]

> 4. Something simple to use, because I don't want to lose time learning/configuring stuff. So the Amazon combo S3+route53+cloudfront won't be possible for me.

"learning/configuring stuff" isn't time lost. It's the price you pay to get a lot of functionality for a minimal financial cost. None of these items are complex, costly, time-consuming, or poorly documented. You're worried about at most a dozen hours of time once.

If you're not willing to learn to do things for yourself, you're going to be paying someone else to do it. At which point you're either blowing your budget or compromising on your needs.

The answer to your needs is acquiring the skills you need in order to do it all for under $10/mo.

[cauterized]

Setting up a server has a sufficient learning curve to significantly delay a project launch for someone who's new to the task.

Configuring such a server to be performant and secure, and keeping the kernel and all relevant packages patched is another learning curve. It's also a major time-sink for a small or one-person team, and even more impactful if this is a side project.

A full server is also totally unnecessary if all you're serving is a static site.

Is all that stuff worth learning? Probably. If you're a technologist. If you're interested in web development rather than trying to advertise your mobile apps. Or if your time has no value.

But if you're just trying to get a static site hosted as quickly and inexpensively as possible, a $5/mo cPanel shared hosting account plus something like Cloudflare may be a MUCH better use of your time and resources.

[Kalium]

You're right! For sophisticated needs like running a server, it's not reasonable to expect a random nontechnical person to take on all that education.

This person clearly knows enough to be aware that they have good options for hosting a static site without ever having to admin a server. Frankly the simple S3+CloudFront+Route53 setup can be done in an hour or less following lots of clearly written documents that don't require one to be a seasoned sysadmin. And it'll cost less than $2/mo.

[cauterized]

You're right. Though frankly, the S3 and cloudfront docs are terrible - especially if you're not already highly familiar with the services and Amazons offerings in general, but even if you are. They don't give nearly enough context or definitions of terms.

I haven't been particularly impressed by any blog posts on the topic either. What resources specifically would you recommend to someone new to the stack?

[Kalium]

AWS has a pretty good doc for this specific case, actually - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website...

But this is decent too - https://www.lambrospetrou.com/articles/migrate-to-aws-static...