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Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by jclos » Sun, Sep 15, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

kazagistar wrote: post #7

So, it saves you the extra click to upload via SFTP? I really am not sure I get the point. Are they targeting people who are confused and befuddled by normal file synchronization?

What confuses me is why it is so expensive? The ones I've seen go from 5$ to 10$ a month while for a little more than $3 I could have mutualized hosting from OVH or any other host. Hell, I could probably have it preinstalled with a CMS and it would require even less work. Is the dropbox sync worth that much, or is there some benefit I am not seeing?

Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by X4 » Sun, Sep 15, 2013, 6:01 PM UTC

jonny_eh wrote: post #59

arohner wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are the backlift guys, rebranding.

Oh. So they dropped the back end feature?

I don't know another explanation. https://backlift.com/ appears to be an effort to maximize profit, by having brace.io look like another service.

And the only scenario where this is useful is maybe a website for a client that cares shit about tech and just wants to manage his site on his own, to save his freelancer cents.

Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by X4 » Sun, Sep 15, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

berdon wrote: post #10

padseeker wrote: post #5

How is this different than backlift - https://www.backlift.com is already doing the same thing.

The favicon's are the same - rebranding?

The brace.io homepage also looks like "drag&dropped" from the backlift folder

Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by nir » Sun, Sep 15, 2013, 7:26 PM UTC

ovechtrick wrote: post #56

nir wrote: post #55

Anyone has any experience reaching quota limits on Dropbox, GH-Pages etc? Would you feel comfortable hosting a very high traffic site (or even a smaller site that gets Reddited occasionally) there?

Looks like they don't host it on dropbox. They use dropbox like an FTP replacement.

got it. thanks!

Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 12:22 AM UTC

corobo wrote: post #47

brent_noorda wrote: post #26

I'm totally confused (once again something on HN makes me feel like an idiot). Doesn't Dropbox already give everyone free hosting? Dropbox has been hosting my website, on their dime, for quite a while already ( http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41075/brentnoorda/index.h... ). So, um... What?

Just a quick heads up using Dropbox as web hosting - Google and the rest won't ever index your site as the domain has a deny-all robots.txt http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/robots.txt

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Re: Dropbox-Hosted Websites

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Post by brent_noorda » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 12:24 AM UTC

corobo wrote: post #47

brent_noorda wrote: post #26

I'm totally confused (once again something on HN makes me feel like an idiot). Doesn't Dropbox already give everyone free hosting? Dropbox has been hosting my website, on their dime, for quite a while already ( http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41075/brentnoorda/index.h... ). So, um... What?

Just a quick heads up using Dropbox as web hosting - Google and the rest won't ever index your site as the domain has a deny-all robots.txt http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/robots.txt

I hadn't thought about the indexing problem. So I moved all my pages to github.io, which google does index. Thanks.