If you try to log onto GeoCites you'll see Yahoo's notice that you can't join any more and the service will be shut down later this year. As the home of many geneology projects, losing free GeoCities is a blow. Can anybody suggest another free web-hosting service that is likely to be around for a while? Brendan

Brendan R. Wehrung wrote: >If you try to log onto GeoCites you'll see Yahoo's notice that you can't >join any more and the service will be shut down later this year.[...] >Can anybody suggest another free web-hosting service that is likely to be >around for a while? http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html (maybe; I haven't tried it yet)

On 14 May 2009 04:02:52 GMT, [email protected] (Brendan R. Wehrung) wrote: >If you try to log onto GeoCites you'll see Yahoo's notice that you can't >join any more and the service will be shut down later this year. > >As the home of many geneology projects, losing free GeoCities is a blow. > >Can anybody suggest another free web-hosting service that is likely to be >around for a while? > >Brendan TribalPages offers limited family tree web hosting for free (GEDCOM upload, 50 pictures, ad-based) or more space and features for $$ http://www.tribalpages.com/pricing.html You can get your own domain for about $10/year (check prices at http://www.godaddy.com and web hosting for about $24/year (http://www.qualityhostonline.com ). The less expensive hosting is usually on a Linux server with PHP, so things like PHPGedView will work. My big expenditure on genealogy is a subscription to ancestry.com. However, family tree research is still one of the cheapest hobbies around - compare $155/year for ancestry to $30-$50+ for one round of golf (plus cart rental if you don't walk). John

"Brendan R. Wehrung" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > If you try to log onto GeoCites you'll see Yahoo's notice that you can't > join any more and the service will be shut down later this year. > > As the home of many geneology projects, losing free GeoCities is a blow. However, geocities has done more damage than good with all its OTHER users that redirect to porn sites. > Can anybody suggest another free web-hosting service that is likely to be > around for a while? How about your own ISP?

On 14 May 2009 04:02:52 GMT, [email protected] (Brendan R. Wehrung) wrote: >If you try to log onto GeoCites you'll see Yahoo's notice that you can't >join any more and the service will be shut down later this year. > >As the home of many geneology projects, losing free GeoCities is a blow. > >Can anybody suggest another free web-hosting service that is likely to be >around for a while? Yes, I will mourn the loss of Geocities. It's been around for a long time and a lot of genealogical and historical information will vanish, never to be seen again -- of course it happens every time a genealogist dies and the family is not interested and throw all the research into the trash, but this will be a whole lot disappearing at once, like in a tsunami. For more info about the Geocities closure and its implications see here: http://methodius.blogspot.com/2009/05/goodbye-geocities.html It's something genealogists, historians and others should be talking about -- will it be possible to rescue anything? There are several other free webhosting sites, but they may suffer the same problem. Times are tough, and people have less disposable income than they used to. Genealogical research will be going on to the back burner, and people will be asking whether they can afford subscriptions to genealogical societies, or whether they can afford to make that research trip, whether they can afford the subscription to ancestry.com (I've never been able to afford it, so that doesn't affect me). A relation of ours lost all her genealogy and family histor information when AOL did something similar a few months ago -- she wasn't computer savvy enough to save it or move it to another host. And if you move it to another host the same thing might happen there soon anyway. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/famhist1.htm http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/

Steve Hayes wrote: > On 14 May 2009 04:02:52 GMT, [email protected] (Brendan R. Wehrung) > wrote: > >> If you try to log onto GeoCites you'll see Yahoo's notice that you can't >> join any more and the service will be shut down later this year. >> >> As the home of many geneology projects, losing free GeoCities is a blow. >> >> Can anybody suggest another free web-hosting service that is likely to be >> around for a while? > > Yes, I will mourn the loss of Geocities. It's been around for a long time and > a lot of genealogical and historical information will vanish, never to be seen > again -- of course it happens every time a genealogist dies and the family is > not interested and throw all the research into the trash, but this will be a > whole lot disappearing at once, like in a tsunami. > > For more info about the Geocities closure and its implications see here: > > http://methodius.blogspot.com/2009/05/goodbye-geocities.html > > It's something genealogists, historians and others should be talking about -- > will it be possible to rescue anything? > > There are several other free webhosting sites, but they may suffer the same > problem. Times are tough, and people have less disposable income than they > used to. Genealogical research will be going on to the back burner, and people > will be asking whether they can afford subscriptions to genealogical > societies, or whether they can afford to make that research trip, whether they > can afford the subscription to ancestry.com (I've never been able to afford > it, so that doesn't affect me). > > A relation of ours lost all her genealogy and family histor information when > AOL did something similar a few months ago -- she wasn't computer savvy enough > to save it or move it to another host. And if you move it to another host the > same thing might happen there soon anyway. www.archive.org might be one recovery route providing the site wasn't blocked. But the moral of this "don't put all your eggs in one basket". -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk