Tag: Render

Spinning up new static site servers, or, diversification as risk management

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I am trying to broaden my knowledge and secure my web assets by learning a bit more about other services and migrating sites there, after realizing that it is perhaps not wise to remain reliant on AWS. This is a quick commentary on services that I learned about and tried (this post is one source of information). My needs are simple. All my sites are static, with mail hosting and any other services taken care of elsewhere. Read more...

Diversification as Risk Management, or, Disaster with AWS

That title sounds a bit Rocky and Bullwinkle to me. But it is appropriate to the situation. I have migrated an older Wordpress post to this blog on AWS backup that provides some context or evidence of my past history with AWS. Let me try to tell this story as concisely as I can. For the TL;DR crowd, the takeaways are labeled this whole episode made me realize. I had been using AWS to serve all of my various websites for a long time. Read more...