No biggie, I can temporary move our blog to another host with a simple DNS change and pulling the static site from our repo. Ah, the power of jekyll!
- I wanted to use Sinatra to 301 old tumblr urls
- Call me weird but I loathe seeing *.html in urls and that's the only thing you can do with S3 root object (when I checked a few months ago)
- something I can't remember. maybe it was cf edge server time to update when altering updates.
You can configure name of index file, and that will be displayed for requests against root URL and subdirectories (such as blog posts) as well. No need for having .html in URLs.
The only problem I've encountered with S3 web hosting is that it does not let you host naked domains.
OK that was actually the answer.
Honestly there's a little bit of "because I did it myself and I'm awesome it won't fail." That's hubris and very typical of young engineers.
Letting someone else manage it for you is probably the right thing for a startup to do. You just need to choose someone with a good, proven uptime record. That is what should guide your decision.. with so many things in engineering.