Lightsail AWS

[lecoqacr...@gmail.com]

Hello weewx users

Has anyone created a synopsis of creating a weewx site on Amazon Lightsail for my Vantage pro 2. I have been trying to get a direction for several days but am too unsure of all the variables. Mike Revitt posted a synopsis on AWS S3 located at

 https://www.cougar.eu.com/useful-guides/weewx-guides/publish-weewx-to-s3/index.html

Is this what I need to do or is that different from Lightsail? I was told that Lightsail is best option.

There is also this discussion of cloudflare by Doug Jenkins using tunnels but Vince and others may question it's security :

https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/hfo4UgRnWAQ/m/VthxrFJvBAAJ

I have built a network across a sugar cane field from my brothers house to our old unoccupied farm house (where the Vantage station is)  but am unsure of where to start with creating a web page so that I can see daily data.  I seem to have reached my limit at present. Presently using a pi4 with weewx.Your help is always appreciated.

Thank you

[vince]

Rather than go back and forth too much here, I'll email you some info tomorrow.

[Timothy L]

Thank you Vince

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[Warren Gill]

You do not need Amazon Lightsail to host your weewx pages; while it's cheap (something less than $4/mo for a simple web server).

Instead you can just upload your html and image files to Amazon S3 (follow the link you suggested) and point a Cloudfront service to them, for like $0.11/mo (yes, 11 CENTS). S3 charges more for downloads, so heavy traffic sites cost more.

You can check out the AWS pricing calculator at https://calculator.aws 

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[Warren Gill]

Oops on further inspection the tutorial on using S3 is not that secure; we can help find a better method. There's a better tutorial by AWS on github but it's pretty complicated: https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-cloudfront-secure-static-site#user-content-amazon-cloudfront-secure-static-website

[vince]

(asking for input from others here)

I'm writing up a clean howto for spinning up a minimal Lightsail instance to rsync weewx public_html to and at this point I have it all ready with the exception of still needing to https set up for the webserver.

My question for others like Doug/Mike/et.al. is what do you think nowadays is the best way to get somebody a simple/free https setup such a self-hosted VM ?  My ancient VM used certbox to add it, with me needing to manually set my Google Domains records and the like, which is perhaps a little complicated for lay persons.

Would front ending with Cloudflare be today's simplest way to get such a vanilla webserver enabled for https ?

Suggestions ?