There are a few good points to Geocities webhosting:
It is free
There is no spyware/adware as far as I know
They give you a site builder
You are signed up if you have a Yahoo account

This is what I don't like about Geocities:
The ads are annoying
The sites you create in site builder are very unprofessional
You don't get much space
You don't get much bandwidth

What do you like about Geocities? What didn't you like about Geocities? Did you have a different experience? If so I would like to hear it.

Why we don't concentrate on our trap17 space and webhosting?

Why we come here then? of course for the free and add_free webhosting .

Why we think about other webhosting with ads and space on the screen.

The free Geocities gives 15 MB space our Trap17 gives you 20 MB minimum

free Geocities does not give you FTP, our Trap[17 gives you FTP and all other.

Their ads take 20% of the screen but our Trap17 doesnt put any ads.

You don't control their ads subjects. If your site about relegion or to kids, imagine what contradiction things you give your visitors.



This post has been edited by snlildude87: Sep 11 2005, 02:21 PM

I hate the name, it's so cheap I've never been hosted with them, they look shabby and the websites that ARE hosted by geocities are mostly shabby. I lke any other free host most than this is.. It just looks wrong.

The adverts there annoy me the most because they appear in everypage.. I mean what if you want IFRAMES... you can't exactly do anything. PLUS all the good names are probably taken because soo many people are hosted with them.

Your entire post can be answered in one sentence: this is in the Your Review! forum. The member has the rights to do that.

Of course, common sense all tells us that no member here would ever degrade to Geocities after being hosted here. Don't you agree?

well back in the days before most of you all where able to pick up a computer, geocities was a pretty sweet set up, but after awhile people websites started closing down, people complaining about the service, and then the ads.

but now i have trap and its all good.

This is true but the way I see it if you have friends who hate forum posting even though it takes almost no time out of your day and its actually an enjoyable part of your day that maby seeing information about another host might help you find your friend hosting.

Who initiate the topic asked:
And I gave the information required.

After my reply there are two reply and nobody critisized how long they said. Read the first and mine and the two after me and be just.

If I will not receive explanation, I will not reply any more.

Probably every webmasters who had managed to come here know about webhosting specially one like Geocities as much as you know.

But let's hope it is still useful since others don't bother to write about what most of us have known it in reality. I think you can include freeservers with geocities. The good point of freeservers is that it is very search engine friendly.. which geocities will not match... though annoying pop-ups and endless ads add upto the hate list.