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Small Victories: Host a website on Dropbox

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See also http://www.site44.com/

Also this: http://calepin.co/

Also http://scriptogr.am

Also: https://www.backlift.com/

Brilliant.

Also: http://pages.github.com/

Also: http://harp.io

Also: http://pancake.io is pretty slick

Also: http://paperplane.io

Also: http://cloudcannon.com/

Yet another "host a website on Dropbox" service...

You 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.

>The people who have invented a truly unique idea, are the ones with an icon on your homescreen

Are you being sarcastic?

I was attempting to be somewhat clever.

My home screen has no icons.

I'd venture that

  ls /usr/bin/

will return a tiny subset of truly unique software ideas.

Looks 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.

they 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

A blog platform that could disappear with zero notice if it gets popular doesn't seem very useful to me.

I 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?

Dropbox has bandwidth limits for Public files. (I think 2GB/day for free accounts)

No, it's 20 GB (for free accounts). https://www.dropbox.com/help/45/en

I 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.

Cloud Cannon (http://cloudcannon.com/) uses a Dropbox folder purely to sync then serves the files from its own CDN.

For those with bandwidth needs outstripping Dropbox, S3 is another good option (although not as available for most people).

Do any of the Dropbox-based solutions support custom domains at no cost?

This one does. :)

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