Hosting a website on UbuntuOne

Question

Recently, google drive offered a way to host websites. Is it possible to do something similar using UbuntuOne?

Answer 1

Yes, you can. But there are certain caveats.

• When you publish the file, the address would be some random string like http://ubuntuone.com/0vKfOjPz0ZJSqXY8Q5B6i6flkasdjflkjsadflalkfdsjkjf, so it'd not be easy to remember.

Ofcourse you can use URL shorteners, but that's an extra layer of effort.

• The CSS and JS files you use need to be shared as well, if they're stored on your Ubuntu One account, otherwise you can link them directly.
• The above point would make your HTML code from something like:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/css.css" />

to something like:

<link rel="stylesheel" href="http://ubuntuone.com/somerandomstring"/>

If you can handle all of it, you're good to go!

Here's a sample page for an example linking to another CSS file: http://ubuntuone.com/3z3QTmzw9kJZmisMOKxnL3

Answer 2

The short answer is Yes, but here is more information that may help you:

google drive offered a way to host websites

What they offered isn't host websites precisely, but a simply file host. And if this files can be public and if their content is a HTML web page, then you can call it as a website host (bad).

As Ubuntu One offer the same service than Google Drive (theoretically) it will work in the same way.

The things that you have to take into account are:

• You won't get an specific domain, it will have a lot of strange characters.
• The traffic limit of your page is a real problem.
• As you don't have a full server host, you will not be able to use technology like PHP or database software and many other tools.
• And obviously the storage capacity..

But if you want to share information or you are entering in the world of the web design it is a funny/useful tool for playing around with it ;-)

You can have a HTML page that load your css, js code, images, among other things.

Review the code of my PublicSinglePageSystem site to know quickly how to do that using Ubuntu One.