For those still hosting their website or content platform on Google Drive, the search giant recommends switching to Blogger or Firebase Hosting as an option
Google is shutting down the Drive web hosting service and recommending Blogger and Firebase hosting instead. Last year, Google had announced its plans to deprecate web hosting in Google Drive for both users and developers.
The announcement will affect Google Drive users who have published content using Google Drive as the hosting platform. Google had made provisions to use Drive account as a web hosting service back in 2013 and the service will shutdown on August 31, 2016.
“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,” read a blog post from the search giant.For those still hosting their website or content platform on Google Drive, the search giant recommends switching to Blogger or Firebase Hosting as an option. Google Drive users can alternately also refer to Google Domains for options.
On August 21, 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 googledrive.com/host/[doc id].
The fact that there are plenty of web hosting services with options for free or low-cost solutions that allow users to get their content on the internet. Google need not compete in that space and probably the search giant is shutting down the service in view of that.
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