Yahoo Geocities closed down

smeezekitty · 11-10-2009, 10:19 PM

Yahoo took Geocities offline and deleted everyones website LOL!!!!
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/8967
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geo.../close-01.html
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geo.../close-03.html
theres the advantage of running your own server.

janoszen · 11-10-2009, 10:50 PM

You don't need to run your own server. You need to have a paid hosting service. And you need to have your own domain. That's about it.

moxieman99 · 11-11-2009, 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by janoszen

You don't need to run your own server. You need to have a paid hosting service. And you need to have your own domain. That's about it.

And Jeremy can happily supply same

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-11-2009, 05:51 AM

... and nothing of value was lost ...

pixellany · 11-11-2009, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by moxieman99

And Jeremy can happily supply same

supply what?? hosting service? domain name?

I did not know that Jeremy was in either business.......

smeezekitty · 11-11-2009, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

... and nothing of value was lost ...

you are disturbing and disturbed at the same time.

Jeebizz · 11-11-2009, 12:48 PM

Actually I agree with H_TeXMeX_H. I can't even remember the last time I even visited a Geocities site. Uh, 10 years ago? Maybe...

I never had a Geocities site anyways.

smeezekitty · 11-11-2009, 12:55 PM

they are usually very helpful to me.
thank god for the internet archive

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-12-2009, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeebizz

Actually I agree with H_TeXMeX_H. I can't even remember the last time I even visited a Geocities site. Uh, 10 years ago? Maybe...

I never had a Geocities site anyways.

Indeed, I don't actually remember the last time I visited one, it was really long ago, back when I was using 56k and Windoze. And it was completely random, useless info ... kinda like facebook only crappier format and less popular.

jayjwa · 11-13-2009, 08:28 PM

Likely phishing abuses played a hand in its closing down. I can't name the number of times I reported spam, and also sent a copy to Yahoo to kill the victim credential collection URL sitting at Geocities. Spammers and phishers LOVED Geocities.

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You don't need to run your own server. You need to have a paid hosting service. And you need to have your own domain. That's about it.

Why pay for something you can easily do for free (and likely better)?

smeezekitty · 11-13-2009, 08:29 PM

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You don't need to run your own server. You need to have a paid hosting service. And you need to have your own domain. That's about it.

and it still doesnt prove they wont close down on you.

janoszen · 11-13-2009, 09:17 PM

Well, your server hosting company can close down on you as well, no big difference.

As for people who think they can do better: any decent hosting company has 24/7 support, hardware monitoring and boxes you most likely can't afford. And besides, rack space costs money too.

Robhogg · 11-14-2009, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Indeed, I don't actually remember the last time I visited one, it was really long ago, back when I was using 56k and Windoze. And it was completely random, useless info ... kinda like facebook only crappier format and less popular.

I had a long struggel with Geocities to get a site taken down.

Back in its early days, someone had set up a Geo-site for the Leeds anti-war coalition. Then, that person had gone away without passing on the username and password. So we had a new up-to-date site, properly hosted, while the Geocities one had not been updated for several years, yet still hung around our necks like an albatross.

I'm not sorry that that has gone, at least.