Web Hosting Service – Geocities Hosting Calls It Quits
It seems like the Geocities, the Free Web Hosting service owned by Yahoo the search engine giant is officially ending service to website owners anytime from now. I’m pretty sure a lot of you have used their service at one point or the other, so it’s kind of disheartening to see them go down with all of the web sites they hosted. My initial web site was on GeoCities, complete with a looping, low-quality instrumental midi file, as well as animated graphics. A lot of other free web hosting services such as GeoCities have risen and fallen over the years because the free hosting business model just doesn’t seem sustainable anymore.
It’s surprising the number of web sites with no business model or profitability sunk during the .com internet reign. Online businesses, just like any other company (offline) are not immune from the age old philosophy of “you need to generate money to stay in business”. Now there are some little exceptions to this rule. It’s still feasible to come up with a bright idea for a web site and get funding from a venture capital firm (go to Twitter for more info), but for the everyday web business owner, they understand the need to make a profit in order to remain in business.
Several GeoCities refugees have migrated over to HostGator and we want to welcome you all with open arms. We can guarantee you that HostGator won’t have the same fate as GeoCities because well, we’re a lucrative company.
If you have a site with GeoCities and looking a new reliable home (web hosting service), go to HostGator and we will try to throw you some free months worth of Hosting.
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