I like some of the advanced features available. I think both have their possible users, while DropPages and Pancake.io are good for people who knows little or nothing about creating a site, site44 is for those looking for a good alternative to host their Jekyll-generated site, (could be anything else besides Jekyll). In site44 case, you need to create the html pages by yourself. Once again comparing this with other similar apps, you have that others, like pancake.io, or DropPage, let you use Markdown to create your pages, which them later transform into html. Site44 seems to just sync your content from your Dropbox to their servers and serve the content from there. Most of the competitors uses your Dropbox to host your site, so if you site becomes popular you can exhaust your daily quota easily. Here the headers of my test site: HTTP/1.1 200 OK I can guess Nginx will be the power behind your site, but the fronted is Varnish. Accounts that have five or fewer websites, and that use less than 100MB/month of total data transfer (across all sites) are free.įor just $4.95/month, Site44 accounts can have up to 50 websites and 40GB/month of total data transfer.Īs far as I could see your site will be hosted in Amazon EC2, but, do not worry, you do not need to have an Amazon account, site44 takes care of that. Site44 provides free hosting for low-traffic accounts.

You have the option to run free or paid accounts, the differences are: Put some html files in your newly created folder.Create a new site (From the same admin page).Authorize to access your Dropbox account.These are the simple steps to have a site up and running and no time. Today while reading hacker news, I step on site44, which is an app that lets you publish your static site to the public, right from your Dropbox account. I'm always looking and experimenting with new technology. Absurdly easy way to host your static site using Dropbox

Using dropbox as a server