Setting up a simple website with my own domain name on Amazon EC2

I have pretty much 0 experience in developing websites. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction in setting up an Amazon EC2 instance with everything I need to make a simple website that will eventually have dynamic content (hence ec2).

Basically, I know that I may need something like nginx, that I will need to install Ruby (because I have already started playing around with it), etc. I just don't know what all I need to do ... I have a domain name, an Amazon EC2 account, but from there, I don't know where to go.

I've tried searching for tutorials lik开发者_如何学Pythone "amazon EC2 hello world website" and stuff like that, but I just can't find anything that would work for me.

Please let me know if you guys have any resources I can turn to ... or if you have a few simple steps (e.g. even if it is high level, that would be very appreciated: go to the getting started page for EC2, do those steps, install nginx by doing sudo apt-get blah blah blah).

Thanks!

There are plenty of guides out there, but if you just want to put up a hello world type of site up I'd recommend starting out on Heroku. It's free to get started and you can add a lot of advanced functionality with relative ease (compared to doing it on your own EC2 instance). It does run on EC2 behind the scenes, and allows you to use your own domain names.

If you've no experience in developing websites I wouldn't recommend starting off with EC2. Working with EC2 adds a lot of extra steps and responsibilities that will tie up your time and effort without moving you any closer to focusing on your actual website or development.

I would recommend going to a managed hosting service that takes care of the server hardware and software for you and lets you focus on working on your website.

You can find plenty of Ruby hosting solutions on http://www.railshosting.org/ and pick one that matches your interests.

• Dave

Check out my post "How to Setup a LAMP Server on Amazon EC2" - http://www.geekytidbits.com/setup-lamp-server-amazon-ec2/