STATIC VS DYNAMIC WEBSITE

Before creating a website it’s important to know the difference between static and dynamic web pages.

STATIC WEBSITE is a collection of HTML files with the extension .html, which indicates that it is a static page. These series of HTML files each represent separate web pages for the website. Only developers can change something on the website, users can’t comment, users can register on forums and similar things, no blog and there is no interactivity on the page. It’s often used for simple presentations like resumes, and information that doesn’t need to be updated regularly. In the project, AWS DevOps Resources can be used because it’s open source and other enthusiastic have the possibility to fork from https://github.com/awsdevopresources and make it dynamic, then create a pull request and collaborate on the project.

DYNAMIC WEBSITE is the opposite of a static website. On the dynamic website, users can use different languages like PHP, and ASP.NET, which required web hosting, also databases or servers that need to be created. WordPress, Joomla or Drupal are free systems that you can use for creating, testing and in the end deciding what is the best solution for your project. Using a dynamic website gives you the possibility to create a blog, interact with clients/users, make forums and registration pages etc., everything depends on the needs of the project.

HOSTING WEBSITE ON S3

Benefits:

• Host-only static websites

• Costs are minimal because it has not server technology and it’s not used a server to host files of the website

AWS Service EC2 allows web hosting static and dynamic websites, but server costs are incurred because we use servers for back-end, front-end, and server technology which is not the case when you want to use Amazon S3.

More about the benefits of using Amazon S3 on the website tinyurl.com/benefitsS3.

More about AWS service Amazon S3: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/