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I give site44 a few weeks before they have to stop. DropBox, unless they have changed in the last ~6 months, won't let you do this. I'm not sure if it's in thei
by biturd 14y ago
I give site44 a few weeks before they have to stop. DropBox, unless they have changed in the last ~6 months, won't let you do this. I'm not sure if it's in their TOS anymore since they went through the whole TOS fiasco a while back, but I've tried this and been shut down.
I'm not known on the Internet at all. I have perhaps 30 friends in Facebook. I had a Wordpress blog and grabbed an image I had sitting in DropBox and used it's public URL. I posted a link on Facebook. Within an hour Dropbox had detected "unusual" activity and disabled the image.
Further, I've tried sharing a 700MB movie ( personal project I self edited ) to a small group of friends. I sent an email to 5 people, so there were 5 or less downloads. The movie was disabled for too much bandwidth use.
I do only have the free Dropbox account, and in the past have linked to a small jpg and posted that to a mailing list for css so it was probably hit thousands of times and that was allowed to stay.
I'm not sure what their internal system is set for as to rules for xfer amounts and number of hits, but in my experience, it's pretty low.
A novel idea, though I would think anyone who knows how to make an HTML site is already locally previewing it, so they would already know how to put it in their public folder. Having a custom domain name point to it is nice. Is site44 proxying the requests? Most isp's don't like this sort of thing either. Any significant traffic outbound on 80 might set off some bells.
I do think it's good to try. The more that use it the more it may send a message to our isp's to stop having so many silly rules. And maybe DropBox will lighten up on theirs.
Is the OP link served from DropBox? I'll bet it isn't.
- smarx 14y agoHi, I'm one of Site44's founders. We've been running for about six months now and have thousands of users, and Dropbox has helped us with our API use since the beginning. Yes, the OP (www.site44.com) is hosted on Site44. Here's a guest post on the Dropbox developer blog about how we use their API: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/23 https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/23 Perhaps your confusion is that you assume we're using Dropbox public folders or that Dropbox is hosting the content in some way. This isn't true. (We're serving all the content ourselves and only need to talk to Dropbox to get files that change.)
- biturd 14y agoYep, my bad, I didn't notice you were sucking the site up and hosting it yourself, I thought you found a crafty way to service dropbox through the OS over the users local port. My mistake. Great idea and good luck.