OT: anyone know a good place for free webpage space? Geocities is closing...

Ron Newcomb

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Sep 21, 2009, 1:34:26 PM9/21/09

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Hi all,

So, Yahoo is closing Geocities in about 30 days from now, and I have
to move my skimpy little website elsewhere. But I've been so out of
touch with this kind of stuff since, oh, 1995 or so, that I don't know
where to go. Most of what I have there is things like the Inform 7
Programmer's Manual, and other such long mostly-text pages.

Anyone have suggestions for a new home?

-Ron

Otto Grimwald

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Sep 21, 2009, 2:30:00 PM9/21/09

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Ron Newcomb wrote:
> Hi all,
> So, Yahoo is closing Geocities in about 30 days from now,

/.../

> Anyone have suggestions for a new home?

You can try Google Site:
http://sites.google.com/?pli=1

It's free, until they too decide maybe "to focus on helping our
customers explore and build relationships online in other ways".

Jim Aikin

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Sep 21, 2009, 6:12:14 PM9/21/09

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I use LunarPages. It's not free, but their plans start at about $3 per
month. I've found the access times for uploading very fast, and as far
as I'm aware, the down-times have been zero. (Of course, my traffic is
so sparse that it could be down for a week and I'd never know.)

--JA

Ryusui

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Sep 21, 2009, 8:28:35 PM9/21/09

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I used to use Google Pages until they downgraded to Google Sites.
After that, I moved to 110mb.com.

George Oliver

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Sep 21, 2009, 9:06:53 PM9/21/09

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On Sep 21, 5:28 pm, Ryusui <theryu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I used to use Google Pages until they downgraded to Google Sites.
> After that, I moved to 110mb.com.

There's also nearlyfreespeech.net. It's pretty cheap, pay as you go,
good for personal sites without a lot of bandwith needs.

Robert B. Healy III

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Sep 22, 2009, 11:47:38 AM9/22/09

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http://www.000webhost.com/
Is the one I used until I switched to their paid service (
http://www.hosting24.com/ ) so I could own my own domain. 000webhost
is free and if you check the site, you'll see they offer a bit more
freedom than others do.

Conrad

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Sep 22, 2009, 11:57:42 PM9/22/09

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On Sep 21, 1:34 pm, Ron Newcomb <psc...@yahoo.com> wrote:

This isn't what you asked for, but it might be what you need --

You can put text pages up on a blog. And blogs give quite a bit of
space, compared to Geocities back when I was on it.

WordPress gives 2 gig of space, which you'll probably find ample.

I put a book online a little while back (in the public domain, vaguely
related to IF via plot-related puzzles):

<http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/technique-of-mystery-by-wells/>

There's also an automagic system of interlinking pages, which I kind
of like, and a stats feature.

I also have a Google Sites page, and for what it's worth, I think
blogging is a better, more flexible and more visible way of putting
something on the internet.

Conrad.

DJ Hastings

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Sep 23, 2009, 1:01:12 PM9/23/09

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I've been happy with izfree.com. They don't require ads or anything, but
you're limited to two or three hundred megabytes of space.

Ron Newcomb

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Sep 23, 2009, 5:14:59 PM9/23/09

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On Sep 23, 10:01 am, DJ Hastings <dj.hasti...@wavecable.com> wrote:
> Ron Newcomb wrote:
> > Hi all,

Hey guys, thanks for all the recommendations. I'll be poking into all
of them likely this weekend.