Watashi wa bara no sadame ni umareta... ([info]jetamors) wrote,
@ 2009-04-24 18:30:00
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The bad news: Geocities is finally closing down.

The good news: DreamHost is offering a free two-year plan + domain registration for the first 1000 Geocities users who sign up. From their page:

All you have to do is verify you are an existing GeoCities customer by creating a page on your GeoCities account (or editing an existing page) to have the phrase “I’m off to DreamHost!” on it!

Then when you signup for us, simply put the full url to that page as your “promotional code” and you’ll get a 2 year plan (normally $214.80) free!

Which I just did, so pretty soon the HP gen recs page should be available at http://www.jetamors.com . (Though I shudder to think at how many links must be inactive...) Now I just have to figure out whether there's anything else I want to be doing now that I have a domain and a "real" hosting company. Maybe I could set up an FTP or something? What do people do with websites these days?


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[info]a_white_rain
2009-04-24 10:58 pm UTC (link)
I'ma miss geocites. Twas my first real web site.

FTP = GOLD. IT'S LIKE GOD. When I went from the file transfer to FTP I about died. Did it ten billion tomes faster.

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[info]jetamors
2009-04-24 11:12 pm UTC (link)
I just went into FTP to transfer everything, and it took, like 10 seconds. It was so amazing *_*

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[info]casfic
2009-04-25 07:47 am UTC (link)
My first website was with geocities, but I deleted it a long time ago. As for what people do with websites these days, I have to say mine is pretty moribund, in that I haven't updated anything on it for over a year. I still keep renewing the domain though - seems a pity to lose it.

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[info]jetamors
2009-04-25 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's the trouble; it's like, I have a website!... okay, now what? I guess it's nice to have my own domain, but... eh.

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[info]avi_via_vai
2009-04-26 12:52 pm UTC (link)
... I used to have a geocities account. I stopped using it though. Does that count?

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[info]jetamors
2009-04-26 02:12 pm UTC (link)
As long as you can edit one of the pages (or make a new one) to say "I'm off to DreamHost!", it'll count. (Well, assuming that the offer's still open; I don't know if 1000 people have signed up for it or not.)

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