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I was wondering if it was possible to change from the standard ftp storage, to my onedrive, as I have more storage there.
If it’s not possible, please add this feature!
Thanks,
SuperGamer474
It’s not possible now, and won’t be possible in the foreseeable future.
Web hosting is far more complex than you might imagine. Supporting OneDrive is just not worth the overhead.
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Okay, Thanks!
It’s hypothetically possible to do this, but it would be so ungodly slow it would be basically unusable. By my own rough guess, I’d say loading a web page would take 1000x as long with OneDrive backed storage.
This is not us not wanting to implement the feature. OneDrive is just not suited for this purpose and will work very poorly if you try it anyway.
Retrieving files from OneDrive is fast enough for viewing individual files. If it takes less than a second to open a file, it’s good enough. But for a web page that should load in less than a second, it’s not enough, because a single web page could reference hundreds or thousands of files under the hood, especially if it uses PHP. So you need storage that has near instant file retrievals, and OneDrive is way, way too slow for that.
Using OneDrive for some data, like downloadable files or media libraries, is fine. But then you’ll have to integrate OneDrive in your website code, because just replacing your entire website storage with OneDrive will not work.
And please understand that your website doesn’t load files over FTP. Your website loads files directly from storage, we just provide you with an FTP interface so you can access the files.
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maybe drive?
What drive?
The server already has drives in it, that’s where your files are currently stores. And driving back and forth with storage devices between datacenters is even slower.
Regardless, what I said applies to all file hosting services, not just OneDrive. File hosting services are designed for file hosting, and are not designed for and extremely poorly suited for website hosting.
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google drive.
Would still not be a good idea because:
It isn’t just the speed at which the file hosting service’s server is running. The connection between that server and the web server (at InfinityFree’s server in this case) is also a factor. Overall the experience would be way too slow to be viable.
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What about Drive to web?
I used to host with them and it was fine!
That’s a whole separate service, it would not work with IF. And it’s would also suffer from the same issues that Admin shared previously. Fine for one file, horrible for many.
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To elaborate on this:
They only do static website hosting, which changes everything. To load a HTML file, you only need to load one HTML file. To run a single PHP script, you might need to access hundreds or thousands of files.
If you are just hosting a static website without PHP code, then a service like that might be fine. There are a lot of services who could do that for you for free. But our hosting is designed for PHP-based websites, which completely changes the requirements for the underlying system.
So yes, it’s a completely different service with completely different constraints.
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