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gwern on Aug 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

Are those really issues for a static site? (Heck, would any of your examples be a static site in the first place?) And if a static site is dumped by Amazon S3, is that really so bad? You're a rsync and a DNS edit away from the site being back up - that's the beauty of a static site, it's just files in directories.

rmc on Aug 18, 2011 [–]

Are those really issues for a static site?

For most people, Wikileaks is a static site. They are unable to interact with it at all, ergo it could just be a static site.

Static vs Dynamic is orthogonal. You can still run afoul of the rules with a static site

priv_acy on Aug 18, 2011 | [–]

I think the point is that a static site is trivial to move.

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