Create a Static Website at Amazon AWS using Python, S3, and Route53

Categories: DevOps Engineering Python Web Development
Benefits of Static Web Sites The most important benefits of static web sites are speed and security. Fully static web sites can be delivered via content delivery networks (CDN), making them load much faster to the end user. CDN benefits include caching for your site objects and edge locations (servers) that are geographically closer to your end users. Static web sites are also generally more secure than dynamic sites. This is because there are significantly fewer attack vectors for flat html pages than with using an application server.

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Build Rackspace Cloud Servers with Ansible in a Virtualenv

Categories: DevOps Engineering
Ansible, Rackspace Cloud Servers, and Virtualenv Ansible is a powerful tool for managing and configuring servers. It can also be used to create new cloud servers and then configure them automatically for us. For a system administrator, engineer, and developer, ansible can save us a lot of time and hassle by automating a lot of our routine tasks. Here’s a tutorial guide for using ansible to build and configure new Rackspace Cloud servers.

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