And what if you have a web site at Geocities?  You’d better move fast!

Yahoo’s Options

Yahoo’s solution is to move your Geocities site to their paid hosting platform.  The ad on the Geocities page touts Yahoo Web Hosting for just $4.95 per month for the first 12 months and then $9.95 a month thereafter.

Searching through the features Yahoo offers and reviews of their service, is sounds like an acceptable deal.  However, jumping from “free” to $9.95 a month is pretty steep.

No Thanks Yahoo Web Hosting

While keeping everything with Yahoo seems like the easiest solution, the whole thing would leave a bad taste in my mouth.  I would be hard pressed to give them any of my money after they pulled the plug on my site.

What about another free web hosting service?

They do exist, and some have popped up just to try and lure Geocities refugees, but as this situation clearly illustrates, you get what you pay for with “free” web hosting.  How much faith would you put into a no-name company to help you out long-term if a company like Yahoo won’t do it?

The Smart Alternative

If you are serious about your Geocities data and are ready to graduate to a real web site, then you need to get some inexpensive quality hosting and start over with WordPress.

WordPress.org states that “WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability” and they are right.  From the purely informational static web site to a popular blog, there is nothing WordPress can’t do.

What’s best is that WordPress is easy to use and easy to learn.  There are countless articles and resources online to get you up to speed quickly.  The hard part is that WordPress takes time to install and configure.  Plus, there are security holes if you don’t get it right.

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All that’s left for you is to start your new life online without Geocities, definitely without Yahoo, and with a powerful, flexible, and dependable alternative.

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