How To Host Website On Google App Engine

Google App engine is a free service from Google. There are many advantages with hosting websites on Google App Engine.
First, It should be more reliable since your site will get served through Google’s own data centers.
Second, if you have a low traffic website, it is highly likely that you won’t have to spend a penny for web hosting. You get 1 GB of free storage space for hosting your images, HTML web pages and other files and 1 GB of bandwidth per day. If you exceed that quota, you pay-per-use.
With a regular web hosting company, you rend some storage space on their server, you then transfer your HTML and other files to that server using FTP or cPanel and your website is ready to serve. Google App
Engine works in similar manner except that the file transfer mechanism is a bit different.
Step 1: Go to appengine.google.com and create a new application. If you have never used App Engine before, you might be asked to verify your mobile phone number before you can create a new app.
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Step 2: Give your application a name – it should be unique and may only include lowercase alphabets and digits. For this example, our app identifier is “thisismyawesomewebsite”.
Step 3: The next two sub-steps may scare some of you but trust me, they simply require you download and run two installers in the given sequence.
3a. Download and install Python from python.org.
3b. Download and install App Engine SDK from this code.google.com.
Step 4: Download a sample webpage  and paste it somewhere on your desktop. It contains a basic website with some HTML pages, images and CSS that we’ll try to host with Google App Engine.
Step 5: Open the app.yaml file with notepad and replace the word ‘labnol’ with the application identifier that you created in Step 2 above. Save the changes.
Step 6: Finally it’s time to deploy /upload our website to Google App Engine. Open the Google App Engine Launcher program from the Start Menu, choose File – > Add Existing Application and browse to the folder where you unzipped the website.
Hit the deploy button, input your Google Account credentials and within seconds, your website should become available online at "xyz.appspot.com" where xyz is your unique app identifier. Later, if you add or modify any web page, press Deploy again and your new /edited files will get uploaded to App Engine.

How To Host CSS On Google Drive.

In this blog post I will tell you how to host css on Google drive. There are many reasons of hosting css on Google drive. hosting css on external websites having good bandwidth and download/upload speed increases the page loading speed. After hosting your files on Google drive, you will notice that  You can use the same method o host java scripts and php files on Google drive. Some days ago, I’ve posted a detailed video tutorial on hosting a webpage on google drive.
Google drive gives you very huge storage space to store your files. You can store many files on your Google drive. For hosting a css file on google drive you need to have a css to host and a google account. If you these things then follow these simple steps given below:

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1.Create a .txt file

you must create a text file of your css, for creating a text file you can use notepad. Copy the css code in notepad and save it as a .txt file. Remember!!! .txt extension is most important, if you save the file with .css extension then the code will not work. In your blogger blog your css code is in between “<b:skin><![CDATA[“  to ”]]></b:skin>” tags and from <style> to </style” tags.
 You can use notepad word pad or any other word processor. After pasting the code, save it with .txt extension

2.Uploading the Text file

After preparing text file for your css code, you need to upload it on Google drive lets do this! Visit Google Drive and click on upload. then select the text file that we have created in the previous step.
After uploading the file, click on share

After that, you have to change the privacy settings of the file, change privacy settings to public so the everyone can access the file.
The second thing that you need to do is to note down the file-id of the file. It is placed in between ".....file/d/" and "/edit......" see the link given below.

“https://drive.google.com/file/d/FILE-ID/edit?usp=sharing”

Put your file id in the link given below

if your website uses http protocol, then use this code

“http://googledrive.com/host/FILE-ID”

If your website uses https protocol then use this code

“https://googledrive.com/host/FILE-ID”

3.Adding The External CSS Link In Your Html

after completing above steps, you need to paste the external css inside your main html. you can do this with the code given below:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="CSS_file_link"/>

 Replace the css file link with the link that we created in the previous step, after replacement the link looks like

<link rel="stylesheet" href=“http://googledrive.com/host/FILE-ID”/>

 Now put this external css code in place of your css code in the main html, now the css code is hosted on Google drive .

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Cloud Storage War – Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive and Box

Internet is getting more and more popular each day and so is the storage demand. Previously user had an option of using Dropbox only but now Google has also joined the war with its new product known as the Google Drive. There are loads of features which are comparable and we can easily measure their usability in various aspects. Along with Dropbox and Google drive we have Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Box.com fighting to be the best in cloud storage.

In terms of cost all the four services are giving free cloud storage service but being free they are limited in some or the other way. As a free storage, Dropbox provides 2 GB of free storage space and a daily bandwidth of 10 GB, Google Drive provides 5 GB of storage with unlimited bandwidth, SkyDrive provides 7 GB (Earlier it was 25 GB) with unlimited bandwidth as that in Google Drive. Box is a bit different and provides 5 GB’s of free storage but a monthly bandwidth of 10 GBs.
For premium users there are very different plans from all the four services :
Dropbox1Dropbox : With Dropbox you can have two types of accounts, one is the Pro account which is further of three types, 100 GB for $9.99, 200 GB for $19.99 and 500 GB for $49.99, the prices are for monthly billing. The other one is for teams, a team can have a minimum of 5 members and for 5 members you get 1000 GB’s of storage and costs you $795 a year. For every additional team member you get 200 GBs storage at a price of $125 a year.
Google Drive : It offers monthly plans which are priced at $2.49/month for 25 GB storage, $4.99 for 100 GB storage, $9.99 for 200 GB storage and so on up to 16 TBs which is priced at $799.99 a month.
Microsoft SkyDrive: In addition to the 7 GB free storage, you can buy more space at $10 for 20 GB , $25 for 50 GB and $50 for 100 GB. That means in total you will get 27 GBs, 57 GBs and 107 GBs with $10, $25 and $50 respectively.Box1Box : Box has come up with 3 types of premium storages, the Personal, Business and Enterprises. For personal storage it offers 25 GB storage at $10 and 50 GB storage at $20. For business storage you can have 3 to 500 users with online storage of 1000 GBs at $15 per user per month. For Enterprises the users can be unlimited with an unlimited storage but you need to get into talks with them for the pricing quotes.
In order to compare their performance and reliability we can upload the same file to all the above discussed services. According to Pingdom it was observed that all the four services gave almost similar results except from little dissimilarity. It was observed that the best performer was Box.com however Google Drive showed some minor outages but was somewhat close to a perfect result. If we talk about Microsoft SkyDrive and Dropbox, they experienced few outages, very high if we compare them to Box and Google Drive. When checked for a month Box.com showed no downtime, Google Drive was down for 1 minute and Dropbox and SkyDrive for 13 and 15 minutes .
These were just four of the best free online cloud storage services we used. There are many more services like these which you can try, it all depends upon what exactly are your demands. But if you are new to this and want to start off then you can surely go for anyone of these.
There are many people who are in love with Dropbox since it has proved to be a very useful tool which gives a very good performance level and reliability at all levels. Microsoft’s SkyDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive, all are focusing on storing your data right on the cloud, hence now you do not need a hard drive which are more prone of crashing and you might loss all your data. So with their storage tools you no more have to worry about internal storage space and backups.
P.S. All of them are great and are best at their service. But Box.com is good for the Enterprises. It already has 140,000 companies that share and access their content using Box. And for personal use we recommend Dropbox. It has larger bandwidth for file sharing and the storage can also be increased up to 18 GB (from 2 GB) by inviting your friends and uploading images from other devices to Dropbox.
LINKS: Dropbox, Googledrive, Sky Drive, Box.