Continuing the discussion from S3 Upload with Vanity Domains : I have some questions! 1: I am running out of space on my droplet because of uploads, so I want to use S3 for my uploads. I might have missed something, but in the S3 documentation : Because Amazon S3 sees only the original host name w…

Is there another way to do this? Should I just do it without a vanity domain? I would love to offload some storage - my droplet’s running out of space…

Just wondering, why do you need a vanity domain for your uploads?

I just think it’s nicer - Just as I use sendgrid with read counters etc using my own domain… Anyway, I just thought it was a bit confusing that there is a s3 cdn url, but we can’t really use it because amazon wants to use the domain name as the bucket name…

[image] zogstrip: Just wondering, why do you need a vanity domain for your uploads? I was recently looking at doing this, and wanted to chime in with a reason why it is useful. We use a free Cloudflare plan (as we’re a small forum) and it works great. We turn off rocketloader etc and just us…

As a follow-up to this, and I’m not sure if this is madness or not :slight_smile: but one way around that seems to work is to do the following: Set up S3 uploads i.e. mybucket and then let Discourse use that. In AWS create a CloudFront distribution for that S3 bucket. Set up an alternative CNA…

[image] fearlessfrog: As a follow-up to this, and I’m not sure if this is madness or not :slight_smile: but one way around that seems to work is to do the following: You sir, are crazy. Crazy brillant. This works and was exactly what I was looking for. :smile: Now, to wait for 1.7 to enter s…

I am now approaching the same territory – the S3 bill has started bloating rapidly. We are also using CloudFlare and are very happy with it. With this CloudFlare <- CloudFront <- S3 setup, what kind of bandwidth and financial savings have you achieved?

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S3 upload bucket, cdn url and bucket name in CNAME

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) April 14, 2016, 10:27am 2

Hmm, not sure, @zogstrip would know best. Periods in bucket names cause major havoc with https and certificates.

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