Agree 100%. Requiring an active server and database seems like overkill for a site that&#x27;s read-only (or very nearly so)<p>You could easily replace his rsync with an s3cmd sync to ship the stuff straight to the S3 bucket.<p>Sure, S3 may cost more per byte shipped than serving it yourself, but probably not for a personal site (if you factor in the need to pay for a running server and the extra hassles and time cost involved with maintaining that server). You can pay for a lot of S3 bandwidth with what you pay for even a cheap VPS.