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3/31/2011

Use Wuala as an alternative web host

Cloud services are getting more and more popular recently. There are several excellent service providers, such as Dropbox, Wuala, Microsoft Skydrive, etc on the market. They may not only provide a convenient storage warehouse for your files but can be good candidate for web hosting.
After testing these three service provider, I found Wuala is the easiest to work with. Here I am going to demonstrate how to use Wuala to store shBrushR.js (from here) files for syntaxhighlighter for R.

To get started, follow these steps:

  1. Create a folder in Wuala software and set it to public;
  2. Copy the shBrushR.js to this folder, select the file and click "weblink" and follow the link in your browser, find the file and copy address from right click popup menu; (As an alternative, you can right click the file and select "Copy Link", and follow the screen to get the correct link);
  3. The correct link show be like: http://content.wuala.com/contents/usename/......./syntaxhighlighter_3.0.83/scripts/shBrushR.js
  4. paste the link to wherever you need, in your blogger templete for example:




(NOTE): It is impossible to use Wuala to host the entire website, but for some small files, like the .js mentioned here, I believe it is okay.

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