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Now and then you ask us: How do you run cloudonaut.io? Today, I want to share some insights with you about the work and technology behind the scenes of our blog.

• How do we come up with new topics?
• How do we host this website?
• How do we survive to be listed on the front page of Hacker News?

We write our blog posts in Markdown and use hexo to generate a static website.

We host our blog on CloudFront and S3. See CloudFormation template for a static website.

Lambda@Edge allows us to handle redirects and optimize images on the fly. Check out our static-website-img-optimize if you want to build something similar.

By using Uptime Robot and marbot, we make sure we are the first to know that our blog is suffering from a downtime.

Want to learn more? Check out our blog post How we run our blog cloudonaut.io which is discussing the topic of this episode as well.

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