How I used Dropbox to store my website content (opens in new tab)

This is a better way of using Dropbox to store website content than I have been using. I am linking directly to files in my public folder, but load times are slow, especially on my Minecraft photos page.

http://gilgamech.neocities.org/

I do this for a few dozen smaller less important sites. I have the master copy in a git repository on the server (in /var/www) and then create a symbolic link into my dropbox folder which sits in my home directory. This solves any permission issues, and I occasionally SSH in and commit the changes in git so I know its all safe in case dropbox mucks up.

Next enhancement will be to have something which alerts me if dropbox suddenly deletes my files so I can recover from git.

The advantage here seems pretty obvious: updating static content through Dropbox is pretty much the ideal (especially for cases where multiple people are involved: shared Dropbox folders are a godsend.)

My question is that of speed, though. Is this going to be noticeably slower than, say, using Frozen-Flask and regenerating the site whenever you detect any changes in Dropbox?

Check out site44.com - it's an off-the-shelf solution to do this.