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Geocities and the rest

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unplugme71

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May 20, 2011
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What ever happened to these free (ad-supported) personal hosting sites? I don't even know of any other ones out there on the market. Has creating your own web site using WYSIWYG editors gone out of style?

I know I'm many years late asking this - but figured I'd start up a discussion.

Granted - you can get a lot of shared hosting with more options/features for a few bucks per month - but there are people still around that rather not pay.
 
Because it's simply too expensive and not in demand by individuals, except by those who want to spam affiliate links and store a few copyrighted pieces of content until it gets removed, only to put it back up again.

Only did Zapd just close down.

You can't survive with just 100 people using your service, the ads will stop paying within a few months.
 
Geocities that brings back memories of the early days of the web. Social networking sites like Myspace :eek: and blogging software really pulled away a lot of the users of those early hosting sites
 
I don't think it was any one thing, but rather a combination of factors. Paid hosting became cheaper and Ad blockers more prevalent. Personal sites were replaced with MySpace and later Facebook pages. Etc etc.
 
Geocities, I remember them. For them, it was Yahoo buying them and then mismanaging what they had.

There are still free web hosts floating around, I think even Google may offer one but don't quote me on this.
 
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