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Josh Shi edited this page Oct 20, 2016 · 7 revisions

In light of deprecation of hosting support by both Google and Dropbox, here we document progress toward the following:

  • User documentation of gigapixel hosting options for StoryMap
  • Updating our gigapixel examples to include those options

Services for consideration

S3

GitHub pages

A draft for hosting through Github Pages has been submitted here.

Box

I doubt that Box would offer general web hosting when the other two major players in the market are shutting it down

https://community.box.com/t5/SMB-Forum/Hosting-a-html-static-website-using-Box/td-p/11878

I've tried setting up Gigapixel hosting on Box and none of my test Gigapixels have worked, so based on that and the lack of any documentation on hosting in searches, I'm pretty sure that Box isn't a viable option for hosting Gigapixels. -MZ

###AWS not 100% conclusive but

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website-hosting-intro.html

I'll try to set up Gigapixel hosting and documentation of how to do so for AWS next. -MZ

Zymic

http://www.zymic.com/free-web-hosting/

The web hosting feature was down for maintenance when I tried it out, I'll check back on it later. -MZ

Byet

https://byet.host/free-hosting

This site does offer web hosting, but it doesn't allow file transfers more than 9 MB, which is a lot less than the typical Gigapixel (I think), so I don't think this is a viable option either. -MZ

Others

https://www.google.com/search?q=free+ftp+webspace&oq=free+ftp+webspace&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4056j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8