Can Skydrive be used as free hosting?

Can Skydrive (https://skydrive.live.com/‎) be used like GoogleDrive and Dropbox as a free hosting option? The short answer at the time of writing it doesn't seem possible, in the future who knows? You can share files and even embed them in blogs, etc but shared HTML files, at the moment, just get downloaded.

There is a interesting forum post about this topic at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/skydrive-files/host-web-site-using-skydrive/593fb442-3858-45d8-8a47-94c5142693a9?msgId=94d3f528-63ed-4d35-9699-78336ae04c04

How to Set Up Your Own Amazon EC2 Server for Web Development | Asher's Web Design

Taken from: How to Set Up Your Own Amazon EC2 Server for Web Development | Asher's Web Design: "How to Set Up Your Own Amazon EC2 Server for Web Development

Amazon rolled out Amazon Web Services and it has been a huge success as it has been utilized by many developers and enterprises for it's robust cloud-infrastructure and scalability. As part of a great promotion to encourage developers to use the platform it currently is offering a free EC2 instance (which I will soon show you how to set up). Go ahead and sign up for the free tier here if you do not currently have Amazon Web Services available. It will ask for your credit card but as long as you stick to the 1 EC2 micro-instance you will not be charged for the first year and can run it continuously."

Go to How to Set Up Your Own Amazon EC2 Server for Web Development | Asher's Web Design for more detail

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Using Google Spreadsheets as a Google Analytics Data Bridge Jisc CETIS MASHe

Using Google Spreadsheets as a Google Analytics Data Bridge Jisc CETIS MASHe:

An interesting article that has potential usage as part of a toolset for sustainable websites.


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