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The demo video talks about files being copied to a 'network of servers' to provide load balancing, so does this tool really produce 'Dropbox hosted' websites, o
by UVB-76 13y ago
The demo video talks about files being copied to a 'network of servers' to provide load balancing, so does this tool really produce 'Dropbox hosted' websites, or does it just use Dropbox as a mechanism for transferring files between the user and what amounts to a web host?
If it's the latter, why even bother with Dropbox as a middle man?
- Shank 13y agoIt looks like the main use of Dropbox is just as a mechanism to upload to their service. To be fair, this is a lot easier for an end user to deal with than something like FTP, SFTP, and especially git.
- est 13y agoThis. Nothing is more easier than just drag n' drop few files into a folder. There are tons of static-generators in Ruby/Python/Nodejs/whatever, but none has the simplicity of Dropbox publishing. Think of it, dropbox as a versioned storage for Markdown source files, third party platform to publish full-fledged rendered HTML with analytics, sitemap, feeds, mobile views, pdf/json/xml formats, etc. This is how should cloud platforms work. Need collaboration or external contributors? Just invite your friends on Dropbox!
- mistercow 13y agoIn theory, gvfs with FTP is that convenient. The problem is that it's a little, shall we say... "quirky".
- est 13y agoYou can't gvfs in iOS/Android/Windows/OS X And FTP port is not as ubiquitous as 80/443 Your FTP server availability is always worse than Dropbox's EC2 cloud. FTP has account/mask/chmod/filename encoding problems You have to backup your data on server and resolve file name conflicts in some odd way. The list goes on.