How to Host a Website for Free on Google Drive

There are so many free hosting services which allow you to host your files free of cost into the cloud. But what if Google itself provide you such service. Yes Google is providing free webhosting service using Google drive. You can host a website for free on Google Drive. You can host any type of file like HTML, JAVASCRIPT files and CSS style sheets to your drive and share your web URL with others.

What is Google Drive?

Google Drive is a free of cost service which allow you to store your files as well as synchronize you files into the cloud. Google drive provide each user his free 5 GB of cloud storage which is available for each user for his file uploading, sharing and collaborate editing.If you are new to Google Drive do check Getting Started Guide with Google Drive.

• Also Read: How to Install Google Drive in PC/Computer

What can you do using Google Drive hosting?

Using Google drive hosting you can host your HTML files, JavaScript files and CSS files. You can also put media files like images on cloud and use them in your webpage.
While designing or coding your HTML, any one can put relative path of their image files or CSS style sheets. I.e. if you put your image file in same folder as your HTML file than you can use image in code such as:

Background-image: URL (background.png);

What you can’t do using Google Drive hosting :

Server pages like PHP, JSP are not yet supported. So you can’t do server side scripting as we can do in normal hosting.
Also you can’t do custom domain mapping in Google drive as Google don’t support this service till now. Also you won’t get any option in setting to set subdomain and DNS configuration.

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