Host your Website on DropBox for Free

Things you Need

• DropBox Account
• Pancake Account

First of all create your DropBox account which is free of cost with 5GB storage. If you want more than you can easily get extra 2GB storage for each referral.

Create Pancake Account

Now create Pancake Account with your working email and sign in into your account.Now first thing you have to do here is to connect your DropBox account with Pancake account. Just click on DropBox link located at the top of that page and than select “Reconnect to entire DropBox” link.

After connecting click on create New Project button and you will see a form like mention in below picture. Film the form with your details and choose the folder from your DropBox account where you want to upload your files.

How to Upload Files

Now you need to upload the HTML files and images of your website to your DropBox account. Login into your account and click on Apps > PanCake.io folder. If the folder doesn’t exist than you need to synchronize your account again with DropBox. Upload all your files here including images.

Attach Custom Domain

After creating your PanCake project your domain will look like this Askmohsin.pancakeapps.com so if you want to redirect it to top level domain than you have to add it in settings page. Click on your project link and than settings tab. Here enter the full domain name which you want to attach with your PanCake sub-domain.

Add cName Record

Final step is to add the cName record in your domain control panel. Login into your domain control panel and select your domain.

Here select the DNS Zone File Editor and add the cName record like the one mention below.