Google has announced that they are shutting down the Google Drive web hosting service. They are also encouraging their existing customers to move to Blogger and Firebase platforms for hosting.The move is expected to affect users who have used Google Drive as a hosting platform for publishing content. The Google Drive web hosting service was made available back in 2013 and is scheduled to shut down on August 31, 2016.
Back in 2013 Google introduced the capability for users and developers to utilize their Google Drive account as a web hosting service. Fact is that there are plenty of web hosting providers out there along with countless options for free or low-cost solutions to get your content on the internet, and Google really doesn’t need to be competing in that market also.
Plus with Google Domains, Google is already working with companies like Shopify, Squarespace, Weebly and Wix to offer website building a hosting services. With that in mind Google announced plans to deprecate and shut down Google Drive’s web hosting service.
Plus with Google Domains, Google is already working with companies like Shopify, Squarespace, Weebly and Wix to offer website building a hosting services. With that in mind Google announced plans to deprecate and shut down Google Drive’s web hosting service.
In a blog post, Google said :
"In the time since web hosting in Drive was launched, a wide variety of public web content hosting services have emerged, and we think better options are available to people today. As a result, we have decided to discontinue this feature and focus on the core Drive and Google Apps experience.
"In the time since web hosting in Drive was launched, a wide variety of public web content hosting services have emerged, and we think better options are available to people today. As a result, we have decided to discontinue this feature and focus on the core Drive and Google Apps experience.
The announcement will affect Google Drive users who have published content using Google Drive as the hosting platform. Google Drive users can alternately also refer to Google Domains for options.On August 31, 2016, the content or webpages hosted via Google Drive’s now deprecated web hosting option will not be accessible anymore. Google Drive users will no longer be able to access content via the link googledrive.com/host/[doc id]
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