Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities [TechCrunch]
If you've been using the web for a while, you may remember the web's first popular web page hosting resource for everyday users. It was back in 1994 when GeoCities launched - long before today's popular blog hosting sites. GeoCities provided free web hosting to any web user that was willing to register. In 1999, Yahoo acquired GeoCities for $2.87 billion.
But with declining visitor numbers and a plethora of competitors with larger shares of the marketplace, ten years later, Yahoo is pulling the plug on GeoCities. Currently, the service is closed to new accounts and current account holders have been instructed to await instructions from Yahoo about the future of the site. GeoCities is unique in that it is almost as old as the web itself, but with the advent of easy-to-use blogging sites, GeoCities just couldn't keep up with the changing habits of Internet users.
Hey Allen,It's a generous offer, but you're only prsteneing one side of the story. There are advantages and disadvantages to having your own blog. For example, who is hosting your domain and what makes you think *they'll* be around forever?My blog is backed up on hundreds of servers.How about yours?How many servers is *your* blog back up on? One, two, maybe a dozen? What happens if you're hosting site is hacked, is subjected to too much traffic, or decides to call it quits? Then what? You might just have to kiss *your* precious baby good-bye.The best solution is to back up your blog. In my case, I use WordPress.Com. All I have to do is export my blog to an XML file (if I'm really paranoid).And that's that.On the other hand, if Wordpress goes down, then you go down with it, Allen. Or keep using 2.7.1 for the rest of your life.Thanks for the offer. In all honesty, I *was* tempted.
Posted by: Kiddu | Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 02:37 PM