With the word that Geocities would be closing, “sometime in 2009” many of the Geocities users are looking for other places to host their content. Even though Geocities is closing the door on it’s free hosting, there are still many free hosting alternatives to Geocities.
Free Hosting – Two free web site elders that might someday share the same fate as Geocities are still around. Both Angelfire and Tripod are still around. Here are a few more to choose from:
- 50Megs.com – Offers users 50 MB of disk space to host their files.
- Bravenet.com – Also offers 50 MB of disk space and 1.5 GB of bandwidth.
- 110MB.com – You get 110 MB of disk space with them (who would have guessed?) and 10 GB of bandwidth for free.
Specialized Hosting – For those people wanting to host their own blog, you might look into wordpress.com and their free blog hosting service. If you want to get started with a forum, check out freeforums.org.
Shared Hosting – For those people moving from Geocities to another location, it might also be time to look into shared hosting plans. There are many low-cost web hosting plans out there to choose from, and they will give you much more disk space, bandwidth and resources to work with.
One more place to check out for free hosting suggestions would be TheFreeSite.com. Hey have a lot of suggestions when it comes to free web site hosting.
Have a free favorite host you would like to plug? Leave a comment!
BONUS! Here are a few other Geocities alternatives:
If you find any more, let me know!
Be sure to catch the rest of our Geocities Tribute on Podcast 186 of the Web Hosting Show!
