Host your Website/Webpage on Google Drive for Free?

Host your Website/Webpage on Google Drive for Free?

Congratulations! on your first webpage or full website with HTML & CSS. But wait... where to upload it! Web Host! But they are paid! If you are looking for a place to quickly host your websites but don’t have access to any web server, Google Drive is a great alternative. You can use Google Drive to host basic websites or even complex JavaScript based web apps. You may upload and publish any kind of static content on your website including HTML pages, Images, CSS, Icons, Audio & Video files including podcasts even.

Google Drive- Web Hosting

Free Web Hosting with Google Drive

If you are using the old Google Drive, you can easily host websites on Drive. 

• First upload your website/webpage files to a folder inside Google Drive, set the sharing permissions of that folder as public, open the index.html file in the Google Docs viewer and then click the “Preview” link to get the URL of your website.

However if you have migrated to the new Google Drive, you’ll be disappointed to learn that Google has dropped the web hosting feature. You can still create public folders inside Drive but the option to publish that folder as a website is gone.

No worries as there’s still an easy workaround that will let you publish your websites on to Google Drive in a single step.

From Desktop to Google Drive in one step

Just put all your website file in a zip file  and then click here to upload that zip file to your Google Drive. Once the file has uploaded, the tool will generate the public URL of your website in the same step.
If you are using the tool for the first time, you may have to click the “Authorize” button since the script needs permission to upload that zip file to your Google Drive.


There are a few things you need to know before hosting websites on Google Drive. One, you need to have an index.html as that file will be served when someone tries to access the homepage of your site. Second, Google Drive websites have a URL structure like googledrive.com/host/h27hfcn28fn8s8nkl and there’s no way to change the default URL.