Yahoo! Geocities Free Web Hosting
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Yahoo! Geocities Free Web Hosting
Yahoo! provides a great free web hosting service called GeoCities.
Yahoo! GeoCities web hosting has been in business for years, offering small personal web sites to members of the Yahoo! community. This free web hosting service is perfect for friends and family members to broadcast pictures and stories online, or for students to keep family members up to date on their achievements.
GeoCities service is known for its uptime. The server is rarely down for long periods of time, and the network seldom loses files. These are known issues with other free web hosts.
If Yahoo! GeoCities is a free web hosting service, who pays for it?
Free web hosting services are free for members to host their pages, but someone has to pay for the maintenance of the server equipment. This is where advertisers come in. Yahoo! and GeoCities charges a fair amount for businesses to advertise on their members' web pages.
This means that there are advertisements on member web pages, including side bar advertisements and pop-ups or pop-unders. There could also be banner advertising on the actual pages. It is impossible to remove these advertising options; if you are clever enough to figure out how to remove them, Yahoo! GeoCities will not allow you to maintain your web site on their servers without them.
What are the benefits of Yahoo! web hosting with GeoCities?
Yahoo! GeoCities provides a great, community-based area for members to place their web pages. There is no set-up or monthly fee to keep your web site going. Webmasters are limited to 3 gigabytes of data transfer, which is measured hourly.
The best benefit of choosing Yahoo! GeoCities is that they have helpful page editing tools for people who aren't well-versed in web design. The PageBuilder and PageWizard tools allow web novices to successfully add nice-looking web pages to their site - free of charge.
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