I love the Cloudfront approach described here: http://www.paessler.com/blog/2011/04/12/network-monitoring-basics/hosting_a_website_through_amazon_cloudfront
I wonder if this is possible to do with caching plugins that create static html files?
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Sign up to join this communityI love the Cloudfront approach described here: http://www.paessler.com/blog/2011/04/12/network-monitoring-basics/hosting_a_website_through_amazon_cloudfront
I wonder if this is possible to do with caching plugins that create static html files?
It depends what you mean, entirely on Cloudfront.
Cloudfront is a CDN only. It can't run any server side scripting environments (PHP or MySQL), it therefore isn't possible to host a wordpress site entirely with Cloudfront.
You could alternatively use Cloudfront to host your images to improve speed. The closest way to host a wordpress site entirely on Cloudfront is to use ‘Origin Pull’.
It is relatively easy to setup (see this article), but still requires a backend server (therefore not offer a saving on cost).