he storage service Google Drive has a feature that not all know: About the system can also host websites. But now the appropriate team has stated that this feature is turned off in one year
Google Drive can be actually used as storage. However, there was, respectively, there still exists the possibility to use the service as a kind of rudimentary Web server. As the GoogleWatchBlog reported,had this "but no specific functions and can only deliver the files that are saved in a specific folder."PHP and other server-side languages supported Drive not, the interaction takes place only on the user side - by CSS or JavaScript.
The function was never really promoted by Google - reason to believe that she has hardly anyone used to nobody. Well, this assumption appears to confirm, because Google sets the web hosting function of Drive. The users have a period of one year in order to look for her (rudimentary) sites a new Hoster. From 31 August 2016 then closing.
Google Sites also be stopped?
Google justified this step so that there is more and more providers of free web hosting. In addition, the company is not committed to place the Drive Service as a Web hosting service. GoogleWatchBlog also noted a wide interesting point: When drawing up proposals for alternatives Google references to the service Google domains in conjunction with external hosters and not on the company's own hosting service Google Sites - an indication "that the sites their best days long behind them and may also be on the internal black list ".
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