{"id":806,"date":"2009-10-26T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:36:51","slug":"geocities-hosting-calls-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/geocities-hosting-calls-it-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"GeoCities Hosting Calls it Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like GeoCities, the Free Web Hosting service owned by Yahoo!, is officially ending service to website owners today.  I&#8217;m sure many of you have used their service at one point or another, so it&#8217;s kind of sad to see them go down with all of the web sites they hosted. My first web site was on GeoCities, complete with a looping, low-quality instrumental midi file, and animated graphics.  Many other free web hosting services like GeoCities have risen and fallen over the years because the free hosting business model just doesn&#8217;t seem sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how many web sites with no business model or profitability sunk during the .com internet bubble.  Internet businesses, like any other company, aren&#8217;t immune from the age old philosophy of &#8220;you need to make money to stay in business&#8221;.  Now there are a few exceptions to this rule.  It&#8217;s still possible to come up with a great idea for a web site and receive funding from a venture capital firm (read: Twitter), but for the everyday web business owner, they understand the need to make a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Many GeoCities refugees have migrated over to HostGator, and we want to welcome you all with open arms.  We can assure you that HostGator won&#8217;t have the same fate as GeoCities because well, we&#8217;re a profitable company.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a site with GeoCities and need a new home, post a comment and we&#8217;ll try to throw you some free months worth of Hosting at HostGator.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like GeoCities, the Free Web Hosting service owned by Yahoo!, is officially ending service to website owners today. I&#8217;m sure many of you have used their service at one point or another, so it&#8217;s kind of sad to see them go down with all of the web sites they hosted. 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