Holy cow, $60/month for one VPS strictly used for educational projects? You can find and build 10 VPS's (US based) on <a href="http://www.lowendbox.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.lowendbox.com</a> for less than that, granted you wont be on Amazon's network, but for small projects and testing distributed services they are great.
Nice hack.<p>However you really should look into static website generators such as Jekyll, Octopress or Hyde. They provide a much cleaner interface for that kind of stuff.
Interesting hack. Werner Vongels, CTO of Amazon, wrote about how he did a similar thing, hosting his blog (albeit not a Wordpress one)on S3:<p><a href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/Jekyll-amazon-s3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/Jekyll-amazon-s3...</a>
Why not host it on a mini-vps with the wordpress install but use supercache and force it to always use the "logged out" copy (and don't allow registered users).<p>Then it bypasses wordpress and php entirely via htaccess and becomes entirely static.
Hm, the search should be 'fixed' too. That, along with getting rid of most plugins, and the comments, means that WordPress is only retained for its moderate flexibility and admin interface.<p>As people say, static generators along with a small toolkit of your own will probably produce better results. But what is proposed is a compromise between an already started job and a good cost-scalability ratio, though…