Byebye Dreamhost & Hello AWS

May 2, 2024
Tags: » dreamhost » aws

Today is the day I say farewell to Dreamhost and hello to AWS.

Ever since Dreamhost dropped support for Passanger in their Shared Hosting plan, both my personal website and BrokenToyStory site went down. In an effort to save money, I turned my personal site to a static website and moved it to an AWS S3 bucket. I then transferred my domains to AWS Route 53, and there I created a hosted zone for DNS setup. In order to get HTTPS on my site, I added AWS Cloudfront to the formula. Now I have a working personal site hosted on AWS with HTTPS!

Since AWS’ official documents are already clear enough, I won’t be adding any instructions here. The only silly thing I ran into was that I forgot to update the name servers on the domains after setting up the hosted zone, so for a short period I had a server not found error on my website because the domain was still pointing to dreamhost name servers (HA!).

Now time to figure out where to migrate BrokenToyStory to.

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