Dockbox.io - Host websites in Dropbox using your domain

by karlcoelho1 • 13 years ago

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yRetsyM• 13 years ago

I grow more weary of how many clones there are in this space, especially considering how easy (and within character) it would be for drop box to flick the switch themselves on this.

yet I yearn for increased innovation in this space. I'd love to see this turnkey style hosting support php, databases and more...

captn3m03• 13 years ago

This doesn't use dropbox to host content, just to share it with the hosting service. Unless Dropbox pulls the plug on "shared folders", which I doubt, I don't see such services going down.

nl• 13 years ago

I'd love to see this turnkey style hosting support php, databases and more

What kind of things are you looking for?

captn3m03• 13 years ago

I'd like it if there was a Dropbox based Jekyll service. I could edit my file on any platform, and the site gets rebuilt to html using jekyll (or any other static-site-generator). This will make it as much powerful as GitHub pages, but without the additional git overhead (I'm fine with git, but not everyone is).

tuananh• 13 years ago

well it would need some kind of mechanism to know when to rebuild like git commit. otherwise it would break in the middle of editting.

santialbo• 13 years ago

You've got http://scriptogr.am/

silverlight3• 13 years ago

Harp.io does this (although with Harp not Jekyll). Using it to build a little web comic site[1]. Makes it easy for the author to upload new pages even though they don't know how HTML/FTP work.

[1] http://houseoforr.com

taude2• 13 years ago

Harp.io lost me at: "Harp Platform would like access to all files and folders in your Dropbox. This app will be able to read and modify everything."

I don't know much about DropBox API, but is there a way to limit access to resource folders?

LukeLukeLuke• 13 years ago

http://Calepin.co does pretty much this but using Pelican to create static pages from markdown. You can use your own domain with a cname too.

useragent• 13 years ago

Isn't this the same as site44.com ?

alabut• 13 years ago

Except it's free.

xerophtye• 13 years ago

um... brace.io anyone?? They jsut sent me their free invite. Seems oretty cool to me. Anyone know any reasons why this is better?

quarterto• 13 years ago

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an VPS account, syncing the files using dropbox-cli, and then using nginx on the synced folder.

(inb4 downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224)

wwwarhawk• 13 years ago

I was losing my mind as I read that, up until I clicked the link and realized it was a well placed joke.

jbarrec2• 13 years ago

http://www.brace.io offers this but also has a separate staging environment which is very useful!

jheriko2• 13 years ago

still not sure why we want to use dropbox to host a website... sure its a little more convenient than a free host and ftp, but its a real stretch.

jbarrec2• 13 years ago

It's only useful for prototyping or testing code in my opinion. I would never suggest hosting a live site on a service like this!

jheriko2• 13 years ago

i still don't get it... this is what my hard drive is for :P

just seems to me like making a mashup mess for its own sake, with little regard to the spirit of the service provided by dropbox.

achairapart• 13 years ago

What about HTTP Headers and cache-control?

Dockbox.io - Host websites in Dropbox using your domain

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