Amazon S3 Hosting Now On Cloudboss.

OK, the big news – if you missed it – is that Cloudboss.pro now supports hosting (HTML sites, more on that shortly) on Amazon S3.

If you’re not aware, S3 has available datacenters (13 in total) in:

  • Oregon, USA
  • California, USA
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Dublin, Ireland
  • Frankfurt, Germany
  • Singapore
  • Seoul, South Korea
  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Mumbai, India
  • Ohio, USA
  • London, UK
  • Canada

 

Why is that significant when Cloudboss ALREADY offers Amazon EC2 hosting?

Well, S3 is ridiculously cheap compared to EC2 (think maybe 5-20 cents per month per site, more on that soon from our testing here) with your own unique site ‘bucket’ and IP (NOT shared with other SEOs), Amazon’s IP diversity and 13 datacenter options worldwide.

Cloudboss.pro usually takes much less than 60 seconds to create a new, unique S3 ‘bucket’ (think Folder) in any of the 13 supported S3 datacenters for you.

You can then use the new custom “Amazon S3” file manager under the “File Manager/FTP” toolset inside Cloudboss to automatically upload your zipped up HTML files to each new S3 bucket.

Inside Cloudboss, you will now see that Amazon S3 is a Cloudboss hosting option in BOTH the “Add New VPS/Site” AND “Bulk Deployment” areas of Cloudboss – IF you have an Amazon AWS account already integrated into Cloudboss.

This type of HTML site hosting is very effective for Bluechip Backlinks-sourced sites through the “Site Rebuilder” there (obviously you need to add your links first BEFORE hosting them).

BUT

There are some downsides to Amazon S3 super-cheap hosting (and why we’re currently building other options inside Cloudboss):

1. You cannot directly host WordPress sites on S3 BUT we now have a built in WP>HTML converter – check the “WP>HTML” link under the “Domain Tools” dropdown menu on the left navigation bar.

2. The IP range with Amazon S3 is MUCH smaller than with EC2 (again, that’s why we’re building other options):Remember though that for valued Money Sites, you should always be burying your heavy-lifting PBN links in a ‘forest’ of legitimate-looking links like press releases (like real companies) – at the very least, that gives your backlinks a lot more IP and geo variation let alone Anchor and inner page link variation.

In the case of S3 which is built primarily for storage and not hosting, let alone SEO hosting, Amazon have only assigned a couple of global A and B class IPs as far as we can see, for all of S3, across 13 datacenters worldwide.

So when installing sites on S3 with Cloudboss, keep a close eye on the IPs created on the Live Sites-S3 page and delete and reinstall any duplicate IPs.
For the moment, that needs to be done manually as Amazon S3 is not at all set up for SEO hosting, even though it can work very well for that, however have in mind that the Amazon IPs are dynamic.

WHAT ABOUT NAMESERVER CHANGES WITH AMAZON S3?

In terms of nameserver changes, with Amazon S3 the CNAME record needs to be added to your domain registrar for each domain you want hosted on S3 (use the “public DNS name” from the relevant “Live Sites” S3 table inside Cloudboss.pro).

And there are step-by-step picture guides for S3-hosted nameserver changes at Name.com, Namecheap and GoDaddy on the “S3 Hosting Explained” page inside Cloudboss.

As always, get in touch via Live Chat (bottom right hand corner of Cloudboss screen) or our Support Desk athttp://support.kmediatech.com/hc/en-us if you are unsure about S3 and need help.