How to host a static website on Amazon S3
Create a bucket, upload your files, turn on static website hosting and write a bucket policy that actually works.
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Point your domain to S3 with Cloudflare
Set up CNAME records for the root domain and www, choose the right SSL mode and redirect www to your main address.
Read the guide →Getting started with Google Search Console
Verify your domain, submit a sitemap, request indexing and understand what the indexing statuses mean.
Read the guide →Why a static website?
A static website is a set of plain HTML, CSS and image files. There is no database and no server software to patch, so it is fast, inexpensive and hard to break. For a personal page, a small business, a portfolio or a project landing page, it is often all you need.
The guides on this site walk through the exact steps used to put jlcans.org online, including the error messages that came up along the way and how each one was fixed.
What you will learn
- How to prepare and upload website files to cloud storage
- How DNS records connect your domain name to your hosting
- How to redirect visitors from www to your main domain
- How to help Google discover, crawl and index your pages