May 6, 2014

Hosting Websites on Google Drive

Almost everyone who owns a computer also owns at least one website these days. Be it personal or professional. There are a number of hosting services available on the web for us to host our websites but most of them cost money.  A simple and efficient way to host websites can be Google Drive. With its free storage space of up to 15 GB, you can host a fairly large website without any cost.
Google Drive can be used to host basic websites or even complex JavaScript-based web apps. You may publish any kind of static content on your website including HTML pages, images, CSS, icons, audio, video etc.
Note: However, Google Drive does not support web resources that make use of server-side scripting languages like PHP.
Here's how:
1)Create a public file folder.
2) Put your website i.e.the HTML, CSS, Javascript files inside it.
3)Open the HTML file and preview it.
4) Share the URL that looks like "www.googledrive.com/host/..." from the preview window.
To create a public folder:  For this, you simply need to go to folders, create a new folder, and rename it to whatever name you want. Following which, you select the checkbox next to the New folder. Click the "Sharing settings" icon. Then click "Change" and make your folder "Public on the web".


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