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MikeH106
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25 Jun 2009, 6:45 pm

Now that Yahoo! Geocities has me in a rush to find another web hosting service, I need to find a good one, one that looks nice in the URL bar and will help me get lots of visits.

Any recommendations?


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25 Jun 2009, 6:56 pm

Why are they closing down? When?

I have some old junk on there that I've been meaning to delete.
Will this save me the trouble? When will it be gone?

I was thinking about putting some new stuff up. I guess not.



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25 Jun 2009, 7:10 pm

MikeH106 wrote:
Now that Yahoo! Geocities has me in a rush to find another web hosting service, I need to find a good one, one that looks nice in the URL bar and will help me get lots of visits.

Any recommendations?


I love nearlyfreespeech.net

Its a micropay hosting service.


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25 Jun 2009, 10:06 pm

Webs.com it is free and it make a site look like a professional did it. I switch over to it when I read the geocities was shutting down.



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25 Jun 2009, 11:30 pm

Tahitiii wrote:
Why are they closing down? When?

I have some old junk on there that I've been meaning to delete.
Will this save me the trouble? When will it be gone?

I was thinking about putting some new stuff up. I guess not.


Tahitiii, go delete it. Likely their property will become the property of someone else, and you'll lose control of your data.


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26 Jun 2009, 12:49 am

Fuzzy wrote:
MikeH106 wrote:
Now that Yahoo! Geocities has me in a rush to find another web hosting service, I need to find a good one, one that looks nice in the URL bar and will help me get lots of visits.

Any recommendations?


I love nearlyfreespeech.net

Its a micropay hosting service.
What the fuzzy dude said. It's a "pay what you use" hosting, and very reliable.

Free: googlepages

you can also buy a domain and have it redirected to a free hosting service.


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26 Jun 2009, 1:00 am

computerlove wrote:
Fuzzy wrote:
MikeH106 wrote:
Now that Yahoo! Geocities has me in a rush to find another web hosting service, I need to find a good one, one that looks nice in the URL bar and will help me get lots of visits.

Any recommendations?


I love nearlyfreespeech.net

Its a micropay hosting service.
What the fuzzy dude said. It's a "pay what you use" hosting, and very reliable.

Free: googlepages

you can also buy a domain and have it redirected to a free hosting service.


Yes. Buy it from nearlyfreespeech.net


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