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Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by hardwaresofton »

Great idea and awesome landing page -- sat through the introductory video and was really impressed with the simplicity and ease of the idea.

Also - would you like to say anything about PHP/scripting support? I saw some PHP files in the folder that was copied during the demo vid, was wondering about support for that

Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by UVB-76 »

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?

Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by Shank »

UVB-76 wrote: post #4

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?

It 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.

Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by tarr11 »

joshbert wrote: post #8
jwcrux wrote: post #3

Can't you do the same thing with Github pages?

Yes, you can. The thing is that Github is still intimidating for a lot of people. They can use this as a simpler alternative.

If someone put a simple UI in front of github pages, I think they'd have a winner...
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