sheaconlon.com

Deployment

To deploy the website from scratch, follow the deployment instructions. The instructions walk you through the following:

1. setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine using AWS VPC and EC2
2. setting up DNS for your domain using AWS Route 53
3. setting up a site down notification using AWS SNS and Cloudwatch
4. setting up Apache for separate production and development sites, www to non-www redirection, "clean" URLs, and no server-side scripting

The requirements are a domain name, an Amazon Web Services account, and roughly $6 per month to spend on it. The result is a running instance of this website, or a different website, if you simply paste in different files at the end! The domain name is optional and you could use a t2.micro instead of a t2.nano EC2 instance to take advantage of free tier and pay near $0 per month.

Workflow

To set up my preferred development workflow, follow the workflow setup instructions. The instructions walk you through the following:

1. getting Sublime Text 3 and the package Sublime SFTP
2. configuring Sublime SFTP and sshd (only on Mac OS) for remotely editing files on your EC2 instance
3. configuring git for separate production and development branches and git-based deployment