s3_website VS flow-pipeline

For my personal site, which is 10 years old, I use Middleman, and I deploy the site to S3/Cloudfront with s3_website. It works fine for now. If s3_website stops working, I'll move to Netlify probably.

resource "aws_cloudfront_distribution" "frontend" { enabled = true aliases = ["${var.subdomain_name}.${var.domain_name}"] is_ipv6_enabled = true // cheapest: https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website/issues/150 price_class = "PriceClass_100" default_cache_behavior { allowed_methods = ["GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS"] cached_methods = ["GET", "HEAD"] target_origin_id = var.frontend_s3_origin_id viewer_protocol_policy = "redirect-to-https" default_ttl = 0 max_ttl = 0 forwarded_values { query_string = false cookies { forward = "none" } } } origin { domain_name = var.frontennd_s3_origin_domain_name origin_id = var.frontend_s3_origin_id custom_origin_config { http_port = 80 https_port = 443 origin_keepalive_timeout = 5 origin_protocol_policy = "http-only" // setting defined after terraform import. can try with https-only origin_read_timeout = 30 origin_ssl_protocols = ["TLSv1", "TLSv1.1", "TLSv1.2"] } } restrictions { geo_restriction { restriction_type = "none" } } viewer_certificate { acm_certificate_arn = aws_acm_certificate_validation.default.certificate_arn cloudfront_default_certificate = false minimum_protocol_version = "TLSv1.2_2019" ssl_support_method = "sni-only" } } resource "cloudflare_record" "frontend_service" { name = "${var.subdomain_name}.${var.domain_name}" value = aws_cloudfront_distribution.frontend.domain_name type = "CNAME" proxied = true zone_id = lookup(data.cloudflare_zones.default.zones[0], "id") }

Many Thanks to Cloudflare and dev.to for giving us this opportunity.

Unlike other providers in this list, Cloudflare is not just a serverless database platform. Instead, it’s a cloud connectivity platform that provides several web services. It’s one of the world's largest networks and serves 55 million HTTP requests per second.

Using a Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) such as Cloudflare, can help absorb large amounts of traffic and mitigate the impact of DoS attacks.

When a user requests a webpage, the CDN delivers the content from the nearest server to the user. As a result, the loading times are faster since the data has to travel a shorter distance. CDNs offer endless benefits like reduced bandwidth usage, scalability, increased reliability, and more. Some well-known CDNs include Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Akamai, and Fastly. They offer several features that help reduce web page sizes and make websites run better.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare offers low/no markup domain name registration with a free DNS service. This will virtually always be your cheapest option for domain name renewals. They don't list prices for all TLDs upfront, so use this list to get your best estimate.

Our site used Cloudflare to handle all our DNS needs. Cloudfare has a number of rewrite options but as we needed to make a decision based on a) the URL path and b) rewriting to a specific domain, the only option (as a non enterprise customer) was to use Cloudflare workers (via worker routes).

Add Cloudflare Cahce & Protection

Cloudflare is a cloud-provider, most-known for their CDN, offering several services to build cloud applications. Among them, Cloudflare Workers is a serverless service that allows you to run serverless functions at edge (like Lambda@Edge if you are an AWS user). This means that your code runs closer to end-users, resulting in blazing fast response times.