Website hosting has become reasonably cheaper these days , with newer and advanced features provided by the hosting companies ,the hosting competition is stirring up and now even google has joined this hosting competition , you can now host basic html website of your own from your google drive account, to do so just follow three simple steps below and host your website in few minutes for free
Step 1 :
Login to your google drive account , if you don’t have an google account sign up and create a new account
create new google mail account using Sign up for Gmail
Login to your google drive account , if you don’t have an google account sign up and create a new account
create new google mail account using Sign up for Gmail
If you already have a
google mail account (Gmail) login to your account
After
logging in click on the menu icon located on the top bar , after clicking on it you should see
something like this .
Now from here click on
google drive icon
After clicking on this
icon you will be taken to your google drive .
Step 2:
Create a
folder here , by clicking on the side menu create
button .
From the available
options select the folder option , a dialog will appear enter the folder name
here an hit create , and the folder will
be created .
Now in this
folder store the html files you want to host along with the java script ,
images and other files required for your website to run , as a good website
host you should keep your image files in an image folder , java script file in js folder and css files in css
folder ,this is a standard and organized structure of a website .
*Note: Do not include any server side scripts such
as asp , aspx or php scripts as they wont execute .
To upload
files simply click on the upward arrow button and select files option from here
then select all your html files ,
similarly you can upload all the folders such as css , js etc from this options
menu by directly selecting folder option
And the
folder should contain files in this manner
After
uploading files and folders , click on the My Drive or simply
hit back button then
Select the
folder you want to host
And now
click on the share icon
A dialog
will pop up from here click on advanced at
the right bottom
Then another dialogue will pop up after clicking on advanced
From this dialog copy the link provided in the share box.
*Note : Here we are interested only
in the id part of the link.
Then click on
change in the who can access section.
Another
dialog will appear from here select Public on the web option and hit save .
Step 3:
The link that
you copied earlier in step 2 needs to be modified now
copy the id
part from the above
write a new
adrress starting with
https://googledrive.com/host/[Your id goes here ]
and finally
the address should look something like this
now you can
share this website address with any one , and they will be able to view your website
hosted on your google drive .
Thanks for providing these tips. But don't you think free resource doesn't provide any advantages to the businesses. I prefer you Go4hosting to get reliable and 24*7 customer support so that you can build your business smoothly.
ReplyDeletePersonal websites can be hosted using this method (eg - one page sites ),businesses need a back end system in place along with server side scripts , Google drive doesn't support Server side scripts .
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