I run my sites, all static on a VPS, but I do the authoring in a single multi-site wordpress install and use 'Simply Static' plugin to publish the result. The benefits are pretty awesome:
heaps of templates (because I'm often lazy), 1 stop shop for patches, locked down plugins (child sites can't install plugins, only enable/disable), and only one place to look for problems (& you can lock the wordpress site to a single IP if you always want to use it from a single place).
FWIW, I never groked AWS & it's ping times in my country are about 1/2 as good as local providers. (15-30ms for local, vs 50-100ms for AWS local). Speed matters.
Also, my use case is to 'fall over' (meaning: fail/stop working/be unresponsive) wrt DDOS, whereas I know many here are 'must not fail' (with varying levels of acceptability). So, I write concise, low bandwith consuming websites that appear instantly (to my local market users).
heaps of templates (because I'm often lazy), 1 stop shop for patches, locked down plugins (child sites can't install plugins, only enable/disable), and only one place to look for problems (& you can lock the wordpress site to a single IP if you always want to use it from a single place).
FWIW, I never groked AWS & it's ping times in my country are about 1/2 as good as local providers. (15-30ms for local, vs 50-100ms for AWS local). Speed matters.
Also, my use case is to 'fall over' (meaning: fail/stop working/be unresponsive) wrt DDOS, whereas I know many here are 'must not fail' (with varying levels of acceptability). So, I write concise, low bandwith consuming websites that appear instantly (to my local market users).