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markw.dev
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markw.dev is a personal blog at markw.dev about programming and career. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Hosting email for close to free on AWS ses”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link markw.dev for posts on hosting a static site on S3 with Cloudflare and on hosting email through AWS SES and an S3 bucket. The comments cite these posts as examples of low-cost setups.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
About growth and finding your passion. In response to a friend.
Most-linked posts?
- Hosting email for close to free on AWS ses2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-07
What Hacker News says?
I found s3 + cloudflare to be a better combo. Cloudflare offers free ssl certs and has overall been a great experience. I also use AWS SES for my domain mail. It gets delivered to S3, then a local python script grabs it and dumps it in a mailbox file for dovecot to serve via imap. I pay $0.05/month for my hosting of my site and email. https://markw.dev
Comment linking /
on “Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront”Submitted Hosting email for close to free on AWS ses as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI wrote up an article on hosting email in an S3 bucket. It does mean your email is in AWS, so not sure if that is any better. https://markw.dev/aws-free-email/
Comment linking /aws-free-email/
on “Raspberry Pi config for all things Internet”Submitted Hosting Your Own Email with AWS Simple Email Service and Dovecot as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technology is the tool, not the goal as a story · 1 points
HN discussion