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World Recipe Collection

A recipe and food website hosted on Amazon EC2
Student ID: 35792964 ICT171 Cloud Project Amazon EC2
🇮🇳 Indian
🇯🇵 Japanese
🇮🇹 Italian
🇲🇦 Moroccan
🇲🇽 Mexican
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Project Description

For my cloud project, I have decided to build a recipe and food website that brings together a mix of cuisines from different parts of the world. The idea came from a simple observation - food is something everyone connects with, and having a well-organised site where people can find recipes easily felt like a practical and enjoyable project to work on. Food also has a way of telling stories about culture and tradition, and I wanted the site to reflect that.

The website is hosted on Amazon EC2, a cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. Rather than using a drag-and-drop website builder, I set everything up manually - launching a virtual machine, connecting through SSH, installing Apache as the web server, and writing HTML files directly in the Linux terminal. It was a hands-on process that gave me a much better understanding of how websites actually get deployed in the real world.

The site itself will feature recipes from various cuisines, each with a list of ingredients, step-by-step cooking instructions, and a short description of where the dish comes from and what makes it special. The goal is to keep the layout simple and easy to navigate, so that anyone visiting the site can find what they are looking for without any confusion.

Beyond just building a food website, this project helped me get comfortable with core server administration tasks - things like configuring security groups, managing file permissions, and working entirely within a command-line environment. These are foundational skills that I expect to use regularly as I continue studying Cybersecurity and working towards a career in IT.

Overall, this project was a strong starting point for understanding how cloud infrastructure works in practice. I plan to expand the site with more recipes, better styling, and additional pages as the semester progresses.

Amazon EC2 Apache Linux SSH HTML IaaS
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License Rationale

I chose to publish this project under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The main reason is that recipes and food knowledge have always been shared freely between people, and I wanted the content on this site to reflect that same openness.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
CC BY 4.0

This license lets anyone use, share, or adapt the content as long as they credit the original source. I felt this was the most appropriate choice for a food website, where the goal is to make information accessible rather than restrict it. It also aligns with the open and collaborative culture that is common in the technology and open-source communities.

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