{"id":178159,"date":"2016-09-02T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=178159"},"modified":"2016-09-02T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:46:45","slug":"dropbox-is-killing-free-webpage-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/178159-dropbox-is-killing-free-webpage-hosting.html","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox is killing free webpage hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dropbox subscribers have been informed that the service will no longer let them host webpages in public or shared directories.<\/p>\n

The feature will be disabled on 3 October.<\/p>\n

Game developers and web hobbyists used this feature to cheaply host their sites without the need for setting up dedicated web hosting.<\/p>\n

Dropbox assured users that even though\u00a0it will no longer render web pages, the files will\u00a0not be removed.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re writing to let you know that we\u2019ll be discontinuing the ability to render HTML content in-browser via shared links or Public Folder. If you’re using Dropbox shared links to host HTML files for a website, the content will no longer display in-browser.<\/p>\n

Please note that this change will take effect for your account on October 3, 2016, and only impacts how shared files are displayed on the web. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.<\/p>\n

Thanks for being a loyal Dropbox user.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More on Dropbox<\/h3>\n

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Dropbox introduces U2F support for secure authentication<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Dropbox passwords leaked<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Dropbox confirms hack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those using Dropbox for cheap or free website hosting will have to make a new plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,1922],"class_list":["post-178159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-dropbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178173,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178159\/revisions\/178173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}