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I could run Scripting News from S3

By Dave Winer on Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 2:40 AM.

A picture named magic.gifscripting.com is served by Apache running on Windows on EC2. It usually works pretty well, but sometimes, usually when there's more traffic, the server stops responding and won't reboot. Eventually, after enough reboots it comes back up, but every time it happens I think about how to get out of this situation.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I don't want to run Apache to serve static web content. I want to have that completely taken care of for me. S3 was frustratingly close to being exactly what I want. It just got closer but still isn't exactly what I want. I could run Scripting News from an S3 bucket, but it wouldn't be accessible at scripting.com because that must be an A record, and blah blah blah. It's such a well-rehearsed story now.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I subscribe to the no-www philosophy. The shorter the URL the better. I always redirect www.scripting.com to scripting.com. I've come to think of "www" as creepy. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

So that's the downside of hosting Scripting News at S3. And I am so annoyed by www as a prefix I would use something like s3.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

http://s3.scripting.com/ Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Try it -- it works. It's kept current. All I have to do is redirect scripting.com to s3.scripting.com and goodbye Apache.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I wish Amazon would figure out how to let us use the domain name itself for one of these spiffy static sites.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

But I may go ahead and make the switch anyway. I think s3.scripting.com is kind of cool. :-) Permanent link to this item in the archive.
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A picture named daveTiny.jpgDave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

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