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Small Victories: Host a website on Dropbox
- killercup 13y agoLooks pretty easy if all you want is a simple blog. I'm wondering about the pricing, though. It seems free, but there is no word about it.
- rgbrenner 13y agothey have bandwidth caps.. so if you get more than a few GB of traffic in a month, they'll take down your page. and in an article posted here a few days ago (about their initial scaling), they referred to people using Dropbox as a CDN as "illegitimate" users of the service. So it's probably fine for your (unpopular) personal blog/website.. but I wouldn't use it for anything serious
- eli 13y agoA blog platform that could disappear with zero notice if it gets popular doesn't seem very useful to me.
- cocoflunchy 13y agoSee also http://www.site44.com/ http://www.site44.com/
- lubomir 13y agoAlso this: http://calepin.co/ http://calepin.co/
- slaven 13y agoAlso http://scriptogr.am http://scriptogr.am
- isnotchicago 13y agoAlso: https://www.backlift.com/ https://www.backlift.com/
- coherentpony 13y agoBrilliant.
- tregoning 13y agoAlso: http://pages.github.com/ http://pages.github.com/
- trevoro 13y agoAlso: http://harp.io http://harp.io
- junkmailking 13y agoAlso: http://pancake.io http://pancake.io is pretty slick
- tonydewan 13y agoAlso: http://paperplane.io http://paperplane.io
- georgephillips 13y agoAlso: http://cloudcannon.com/ http://cloudcannon.com/
- jerrya 13y agoI like playing with various dropbox experiments. What is the deal with dropbox these days? Is it okay to host websites out of my dropbox via a dropbox associated app?
- minimaxir 13y agoDropbox has bandwidth limits for Public files. (I think 2GB/day for free accounts)
- unicornporn 13y agoNo, it's 20 GB (for free accounts). https://www.dropbox.com/help/45/en https://www.dropbox.com/help/45/en
- rkda 13y agoI don't know about the other companies but site44 only uses Dropbox to sync your files. The site itself is hosted in their own servers. It's just to make it easy to edit and upload your site.
- georgephillips 13y agoCloud Cannon (http://cloudcannon.com/ http://cloudcannon.com/) uses a Dropbox folder purely to sync then serves the files from its own CDN.
- deanpcmad 13y agoYet another "host a website on Dropbox" service...
- rfnslyr 13y agoYou can say the same for literally every single product out there. The people who have invented a truly unique idea, are the ones with an icon on your homescreen ;) It's a tight list to get on.
- unknownian 13y ago>The people who have invented a truly unique idea, are the ones with an icon on your homescreen Are you being sarcastic?
- rfnslyr 13y agoI was attempting to be somewhat clever.
- ISL 13y agoMy home screen has no icons. I'd venture that ls /usr/bin/ will return a tiny subset of truly unique software ideas.
- frakkingcylons 13y agoFor those with bandwidth needs outstripping Dropbox, S3 is another good option (although not as available for most people).
- pbreit 13y agoDo any of the Dropbox-based solutions support custom domains at no cost?
- pearkes 13y agoThis one does. :)