Building an infinitely scalable cloud host for less than $5/mo

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serving files is literally the oldest thing in the www, it's literally what the www was born for.

weird how this guy managed to make it complex for serving just html and css (and possibly images).

I would go with aws' elastic filesystem and a bunch of auto-scaled nginx machines with caching enabled mounting efs in read only. Dns-level load balancing, cloudfront. efs is pay as you go, the nginx are auto-scalable (and you can get spot instances too).

the signup/login webservice can be served via lambda, with static content being served off S3 (and again, cloudfront).

a simple ftp or sftp-enabled ftp server with a database auth backend could let users work on their stuff (again, autoscalable)

The goal of the article was to do it for cheap. How expensive would your proposed architecture be? Auto-scalable nginx instances do not equate to cheap, especially when you're starting out.

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