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Perry P.
10 years agoNew member | Level 2
Discontinuing rendering of HTML content
Got email notice from dropbox that they are discontinuing HTML rendering. This is going to cause major issues for my wife since she uses this to distribute info and files to her students. We are ru...
Anoop G.
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
I am in the same situation -- use dropbox to host a static site. Did some research and already moved to bitballoon. Had to change all the links pointing to files in dropbox from relative to absolute ones.
Here are a couple of sites (somewhat dated) that folks here may find useful:
http://alignedleft.com/resources/cheap-web-hosting
http://designrope.com/toolbox/static-web-hosting/
So far, I have not been able to find anything as easy as dropbox [not true, see update below], but bitballoon is as close as it gets. However, I have already encountered errors uploading files (although the pages work fine despite the error message) and help is hard to come by.
I may have to learn git and instead host the pages on github pages.
One of the solutions mentioned in the links above is updog.co. I'm trying to find out if that will continue to work after this change by emailing the owner of that service.
Update: I heard back from Jesse, the owner/creator of updog:
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Updog is not affected by this update, because it uses the DropBox API.
If you send viewers this link - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/<jekyll's page id>/index.html They will see raw unrendered HTML.
If you send viewers and updog link, like - https://jekyll.updog.co/ They will see the rendered HTML with all the styling.
Thanks for using updog and let me know if you have any other questions.
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So it looks like this is the easiest alternative for those of us that have been using dropbox. All I had to do was move the files in my Dropbox public directory, ~/Dropbox/Public/*, under ~/Dropbox/apps/updog/<my site name>, and now users can access it at <my site name>.updog.co.
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