Can I use Storj DCS for web hosting?

The Storj network allows you to store and retrieve your data, but it is not made for hosting dynamic web sites.

To publish your site, your need to have either compute service which will run your web-server, or web-service. The Storj DCS object storage does not offer compute or web services to host your site.
Instead it offers S3-compatible object storage.

However, it could host a static web-site:

• via uplink
• via S3 Gateway

If your site uses the S3 object storage already, you can easily switch to Storj DCS:

1. Create S3 credentials on Storj-hosted S3-compatible Gateway
2. Configure your S3 part to work with our S3 Gateway instead of AWS S3:
   • Endpoint will be offered during credentials generation, but you can select it from preferred regions
   • AWS Access Key ID can be taken from the log of the S3 Gateway
   • AWS Secret Access Key can be taken from the log of the S3 Gateway

In addition you can use Storj DCS:

• via Self-hosted S3-compatible Gateway on your hosting (the Endpoint will be http://localhost:7777);
• directly (without an intermediate S3 Gateway) via Uplink CLI or programmable access via libuplink.

You can find a more detailed guides for Storj DCS here.