Let Dropbox Host your Site

Here at the …the end user we love Dropbox . It’s great for sharing files with friends, keeping files synced between your computers and storing important documents for access anywhere with an internet connection. The service is great for all different types of uses , but I’ve just stumbled across one in the Dropbox Wiki that caught my eye and looks to be very useful. By storing your website files in the public folder of your dropbox you can actually use Dropbox as a host for your site. Basically, you just move all of your website files into the public folder, right-click on your homepage (usually home.htm or index.html) and copy the link location. This URL will give you access to your homepage. It’s simple enough and with the few tests that I ran it seemed to work great. I even published one of my iWeb sites to a folder and dragged it into my dropbox public folder and it worked flawlessly. Unless you upgrade to the 50 gb of storage for $99/year you are limited to 2 gb of space. However, these days with the ability to embed photo albums and videos using host services like Picasa and Youtube it isn’t necessary to have a whole lot of storage space in order to maintain a website full of rich media content. Never used Dropbox? Check out their tour here.

[Dropbox Wiki]