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Dropbox Provides Light-weight FTP space


Dropboxis an excellent cloud-base online storage that synchronizes your files among your desktops, mobile phones, iPad, iPhone and etc devices. It is fast and secure. I provides you a quick solution to backup and synchronize you data/images etc. It is using amazon cloud-computing technology.

As it is free, it can be used to create light-weight HTML website. The steps are very simple as it involves only two steps. First, create website using HTML only i.e. not dynamic pages e.g. ASP, PHP, JSP etc are supported. Second, put the files on the public folder and copy the public link.

The following illustrates the steps to have a light-weight website using Dropbox.

Right click on the HTML file on the dropbox website. Alternatively, you can right click the file at the Windows File Explorer, go to Dropbox –> Copy the public link.

The example public link of the dropbox files under public folder. As you can see, it even provides a Secure HTTPs (The URL starts at https://)

This may help you create a free HTML website quickly.

Update: Dropbox Stops Rendering HTML

Unfortunately, dropbox will stop rendering HTML in the browser from Oct 2016.

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