GeoCities Will Be Leaving Us For Good

Tough financial times are far reaching sometimes, especially right now. Even the internet giant Yahoo has felt the effects. They have made the decision to shut down GeoCities. The website has been providing web hosting and guidance to newcomers. They didn't charge for the whole 10 years that they have been in the game. Yahoo decided that their time was past.

Yahoo is going to let people keep their sites open with several different forms of service plans that will need to be paid for starting in the beginning of November. They just can't afford to keep it free any more. The idea of having a paid plan as an option will at least let people keep their sites open if the want to.

When you get started with a paid web host service you will notice that you don't have to deal with any ads any more. Those can be a real pain to deal with and not having them there is a blessing. Because there are so many new forms of social media around, GeoCities can't keep up with them. It hasn't been able to for a long time now. They are working on saving some of the first sites from them so that people can check out what is was like when the internet first started.

Yahoo has owned GeoCities for a while (since 1999) and actually purchased this web hosting service for a little less than $3 billion and during that time it has served as precursor to many of the social media and self publishing tools of today. And although it is being trimmed as fat it has served Yahoo well for their small investment ten years ago.

You have to be able to keep up, and Yahoo has a handle on that. There are always changes and ideas that are blossoming within the internet world. The ability to adapt your company to these changes is what makes some businesses more successful than others. You have to be able to keep up and Yahoo has been able to do this.