How to host webstie in Google drive with custom domain and free SSL certificate | Thetechhoster

In this blog, you learn how to host our website in Google drive with a custom domain and free SSL certificate. 

Google Drive provides free 15gb data storage for each Gmail account to store file and documents. Now, we use this storage place as a hosting to host our website.

How to host website in Google drive?

requirements

• A fresh gmail account
• our website files
• Cloud flare
• server less server

Step to host website in google drive 

• Go to the google drive and create a folder of our website name like www.techysolver.com

• upload our website files and assets 
• give the folder private to the public which accesses anyone

•   on the right-side panel right click on the folder and click get a shareable link. so that it is public now anyone can access the file.

Step to create URL link 

1. open website https://drv.tw/  it is a serverless Webhosting which means it uses google drive or one drive as a server.
2. click host on Google Drive
3. choose Gmail where you upload website folder           
4. After giving all the permission a URL is showing which is our website URL

Note: drv.tw website accesses our google drive so create a fresh Gmail account and try this.

Now the given link is very long and not look like regular basic URL link. show how to use a custom domain on this website.

In this example, I use freenom.com website for the free domain

Register a Free Domain name in freedom

1. Go to frenom.com
2. create an account using Gmail
3. click on services and drop-down menu open click on register a new domain name.
4.  choose our domain name and purchase that domain name free for 12 months.

Step to link given URL of our website with our custom domain 

• Go to freenom website and click my domain then click manage domain 
• open management tool and click name-server
• in name server click default name server
• then click management DNS and create more record

Note: Here we point our DriveToWeb given URL to our custom domain

Create Free SSL certificate using Cloud-fare

• Go to the Cloud-fare website a signup
• the add our website name

• click DNS and register our website.

conclusion

In the end, I recommended to purchase the proper web hosting using or you may go Blogger which is an amazing platform.