Yahoo! GeoCities closing down permanently

Yahoo! GeoCities, one of the oldest and famous web hosting service is going down permanently today October 26th 2009. One of the reasons being that Yahoo! wants to concentrate more on other online services enhancing customer satisfaction and also improve upon its award winning Yahoo! Web Hosting service instead.


Today, all the webpages and images will be permanently deleted from the Yahoo! GeoCities servers. One of the FAQ states:

"After October 26, your GeoCities files will be deleted from our servers, and will not be recoverable."

Many people surely will get impacted because of this, but there is not much time for people to react now. Users can either upgrade their GeoCities to Yahoo! Web Hosting or download their data onto their PCs. Yahoo! no longer offers free hosting options. If you are looking free hosting, you might consider one of these free services.

• Tripod
• Webs.com
• Weebly
• WebStarts.com
• SynthaSite
• Wikispaces