Moves to DigitalOcean from AWS (#4)

* Moves to DigitalOcean from AWS

* README

* Removes deployment workflow

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Co-authored-by: Joe Carstairs <65492573+Sycamost@users.noreply.github.com>

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 ## Infrastructure
 
-The infrastructure has these components:
-
-- AWS Route53Domains (for domain name registration)
-- AWS Route53 (for domain name resolution)
-- AWS CloudFront (for path-based routing)
-- AWS S3 (for static website hosting)
-
-The CloudFront bit is needed, because S3 static website hosting can only accept
-HTTP requests. CloudFront manages receiving HTTPS requests and forwarding them
-to HTTP.
-
-The S3 bucket includes a secret string of random characters. This is because
-when you set up static website hosting, the S3 API becomes open to the internet,
-and there's no way to turn this off. So you are theoretically open to DDoS
-attacks, for which you will be charged. Including a random string in the bucket
-name makes it less likely that an attacker will find the bucket to send requests
-to.
-
-The secret is stored in a GitHub secret called `S3_BUCKET_SUFFIX` so that it can
-be accessed by GitHub Actions workflows.
-
-## Invalidating the CloudFront cache
-
-When you update pages, you’ll need to invalidate the CloudFront cache in order
-for CloudFront to serve the new versions before the caches expire (which could
-be a while). Here’s how to do it:
-
-1. Go to the CloudFront console
-2. Select the distribution for this website
-3. Go to the Invalidations tab
-4. Add a new Invalidation
-5. Include all pages you’ve updated
-  - Use the relative URL, not the filepath, e.g. "/blog/" not "/blog/index.html"
-  - Include the trailing "/" or it won’t work
-  - You can use wildcards to make life easier, e.g. "/blog/2024/01/29/*"
+The infrastructure is on DigitalOcean.
 
+The website is hosted using the App Platform service from DigitalOcean. This is
+free for static websites, and is quite flexible to add in extra apps as Droplets
+or Functions at a later time if I so please.
+
+DigitalOcean App Platform re-deploys the website every time there's an update to
+the `main` branch in this repo.
+
+All the DigitalOcean infrastructure is managed using Terraform. The code for
+this is in the `infrastructure/` directory.
+
+The domain, however, is registered on AWS. The nameservers registered in AWS
+have to be kept manually up-to-date with the DigitalOcean nameservers. These
+shouldn't change, though, so this is unlikely to need intervention more than
+once.