I've used https://divshot.com/ to host a quick static site for free. It
looks like they do more than that even.
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Tommy Keswick, MLIS
Drupal Developer
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com/about/tommy-keswick
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Joel Marchesoni <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I've never paid a dime for Dropbox (although I probably should at this
> point) and I've still got a public folder. Maybe I'm just grandfathered in?
>
> Joel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Eliza Carrie Bettinger
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 10:25
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for free hosting for html code
>
> Unfortunately, "Public" folders are no longer included in new free Dropbox
> accounts -- if you want that feature you need a paid plan.
>
> --
> Eliza Bettinger
> Digital Geo-Information Specialist
> American Geographical Society Library
> UW-Milwaukee
> Milwaukee WI USA
> 414-229-6282
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Joel
> Marchesoni <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 8:48 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for free hosting for html code
>
> +1 for Dropbox, I use it a lot for prototyping pages. As long as the code
> is client-side (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) it works beautifully. As a bonus you
> don't have to do any uploading, just let it sync. It's easiest to just put
> it in the "Public" folder, that way you don't need to worry about setting
> up sharing on other folders.
>
> Joel Marchesoni
> Tech Support Analyst
> Hunter Library, Western Carolina University http://library.wcu.edu/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Charlie Morris
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 09:14
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for free hosting for html code
>
> I've never done this, but I've heard you can use DropBox in an unofficial
> capacity to host basic pages too:
> http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/host-websites-with-dropbox
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Joe Hourcle <
> [log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Sarles Patricia (18K500) wrote:
> >
> > [trimmed]
> >
> > I plan to teach coding to my 6th and 12th grade students next school
> > year
> >> and our lab has a mixture of old (2008) and new Macs (2015) so I want
> >> to make all the Macs functional for writing code in an editor.
> >>
> >> My next question is this:
> >>
> >> I am familiar with free Web creation and hosting sites like Weebly,
> >> Wix, Google sites, Wikispaces, WordPress, and Blogger, but do you
> >> know of any free hosting sites that will allow you to plug in your
> >> own code. i.e. host your own html files?
> >>
> >
> > If it's straight HTML, and doesn't need any sort of text
> > pre-processing (SSI, ASP, JSP, PHP, ColdFusion, etc.), I think that
> > you can use Google Drive. This help page seems to suggest that's true:
> >
> > https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en
> >
> > With all static files it might also be possible to lay things out so
> > that you could serve it through github or similar. (and teaching them
> > about version control isn't a bad idea, either)
> >
> > -Joe
> >
>
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