Google deleting websites

Google is warning users that it will soon delete their websites. Don't panic: only sites served from Google Drive accounts are being wiped. Google deprecated Drive as a hosting option on August 31, 2015 and gave users a year to get their act (and files) together. That deadline is now nearing, so Google is issuing final …

[Barry Rueger]

Yet Again

Like many people I've been moving most on-line functions away from Google precisely because of this : the last thing I need is to have another service that I rely on "disappeared" by Google.

It has happened too many times.

That's my overall discomfort with all variety of "cloud" services - you quite literally have no assurance that they won't disappear tomorrow.

Still, running a website off of Drive?

[PacketPusher]

Re: Yet Again

They appear to have given a years warning. That is hardly "disappearing tomorrow."

That said, the fact that you can lose your site/blog/etc. because of some vague and subjective terms of service violation with no appeal is a good reason not to go to the cloud.