**NOTE Google has deprecated this feature as of 8/31/2015. Hosting services via Google Drive will be disabled on August 31, 2016**
I had a web server crash and needed a place to store some web pages before I migrated them to another platform. I did a little research to see what my options were and found a nice little gem!
Google Drive can host web pages! The Help section of Google Drive provides the following instructions:
*With Drive, you can make web resources — like HTML, CSS, and Javascript files — viewable as a website.* *To host a webpage with Drive:* Open Drive at drive.google.com and select a file. Click the Sharebutton at the top of the page. Click Advancedin the bottom right corner of the sharing box. Click Change…. Choose On – Public on the weband click Save. Before closing the sharing box, copy the document ID from the URL in the field below “Link to share”. The document ID is a string of uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers between slashes in the URL. Share the URL that looks like “www.googledrive.com/host/[doc id] where [doc id] is replaced by the document ID you copied in step 6. *Anyone can now view your webpage.* *Google Drive does not support web resources that make use of server-side scripting languages like PHP.*
There are a few things to note about using Google Drive for web page hosting. 1) The URL isand not linked to Stony Brook. 2) The storage is linked to your account–if your NetID is disabled, the hosting is disabled as well. 3) Relative linking works! You can browse content within the same folder very easily! 4) Unlimited storage!
I have not tested to see how download speeds can be, but it seemed to move quickly enough. The lab site I uploaded is available here:
https3f4e9de109ffc19abcef964c8fd054256b630149-www.googledrive.com/host/0B2nAWIl0sos5fnRrekVOSnFPcHo1WmhTRXFlSW1nSDcxSjI1dm9sWmFqNVUtN3gxSXJXdFE/
See, that URL is! Also note that the URL changed slightly from what Google suggested above. I initially went to httpwww.googledrive.com/host/0B2nAWIl0sos5flJoekVhc2I4c21aTXA2cHRjUEF6ZEh1QWluTVZwY3NuRU5WOVY4engzS1U but it was changed to the above link

The Developers section of Google Drive has some methods for uploading files to Google Drive through their API. That information is available here: httpsdevelopers.google.com/drive/web/publish-site