Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, I am unsure.
I am looking at hosting my .html and .unity3d files publicly, so that I can then provide demos of my games online. I have found that the two most popular ways are not for me. Google Drive no longer works and Dropbox is not free if your account is newly made - I don’t want to pay for the service.
I have looked at Dropbox competition and not found any free public hosting services so far.
If you are able to submit demos in a free way, please let me know. It is frustrating that I can’t demonstrate my current production to get peoples opinions on it.
If you’re serious about development, getting a website is a wise investment. And you can get a basic web hosting plan for under $4/mo. Besides being convenient, it also makes you look a lot more professional!
You might try zoho.com but I’m unsure if you can actually run a Unity demo in one. With HTML5 it should be easier to find sites that can host your content, I know I can share videos on OneDrive without a problem but those aren’t high number of visitor that see them or even advertised as that are old personal videos.
Thanks for the advice. I do have my own site (but cannot find very good Wordpress documentation relating to adding Unity projects). I will look at Newgrounds and plan on releasing a full game on Kong when it is done. Cheers.
GoDaddy is hosting my Wordpress site. I cannot put .unity3d files onto a Wordpress site and so need to hold it publicly somewhere, GoogleDrive is no good and neither is Dropbox.
Sure you can. You can do it via FTP or even the file manager tools in your GoDaddy control panel. Personally, I’m not a fan of shared hosting so I have a private VPS that I host my blog, product site and a couple other various sites on, as well as database and… well whatever I want. It’s Windows Server 2012 R2 with IIS 8.5. However, the key there is that I have the technical expertise to self-manage and administer my own server. It’s not the right solution for everyone, in which case shared hosting is fine.
Since you already have a GoDaddy account, use it. Just get on their support chat and they’ll even tell you how to upload your files. You may have to add the additional MIME types from your hosting control panel to support the .unity3d files as well, but it’s certainly doable.
And dropbox works too (last I checked) which then you could just link it into WordPress maybe? Like you have a form or however WordPress works, and in there link to your dropbox public shared html file and maybe it just works…
Or maybe I’m crazy - but I know I’ve hosted webplayers on dropbox before and you can load them up on there directly, so I’d bet there’s a way to get that uploaded webplayer to show up in wordpress…
If you’ve got godaddy I’ve had some bad experiences with those guys where I forgot to renew my hosting, and to “recover” my database they wanted to charge me hundreds of dollars when my whole year was like under 40 bucks. It was ridiculous. But yeah anyway if you just ftp your built webplayer in there on your hosting and reference it on some pages html, you could just host it there.
There are free website hosting companies around like e.g. byethost (very solid). You can try those. And to “look professional”, all you really need is a domain name.
Does it have to be completely free? Amazon’s scalable storage is very affordable. They offer a free twelve month trial with 5GB of storage and 15GB of bandwidth per month.
It is very affordable if you’re barely using it. Actual storage is only $0.03 per gigabyte at worst. Bandwidth is only $0.09 per gigabyte at worst with the first gigabyte being free. Perfect for infrequent use.
What is the likelyhood that would happen though? It sounds very much like he simply wants storage for his portfolio. If he is really that worried about such a problem he can always go with the free tier of Cloudflare. It provides basic DDoS protection.
I’m just saying you should be very cautious with amazon aws, as there is no way to set a maximum ammount of money it should burn to keep your site online. It’ll eat any attack, but at what cost?