Geocities Upgrade Problem

bion · May 8th, 2002, 05:44 AM

I had a GeoPlus account and attempted an online upgrade to Webmaster. For some reason I couldn't upgrade. I called Yahoo! and they suggested I cancel the GeoPlus and then I'd be able to sign up for the Webmaster account. That did not work. Now my virtual url - jazzinternet.com - does not point to my Yahoo! address. And its now been two weeks. I'm losing visitors by the score! I've contacted Yahoo! numerous times by email, fax, telephone, and support forms. And all they do is ignor my problem. They haven't replied to any of my calls for help. I pay for my web site and don't have the slightest understanding why they would treat someone like this. Has anyone had a similar problem with Geocities? And other than dumping them, which I will eventually do, are there any other suggestions? Legal ones

Feel free to email me at rjbion@yahoo.com Thanks.

Beemer · May 8th, 2002, 07:59 AM

Welcome to techimo!
I had a free site with geocities and just got fed up with their crap. I'm now using Top1000 Domains for my web page hosting. If you know your stuff check out the features offered by this company. They've been running for quite a few years. They have recently added web hosting services to the company services. I created the page for this thread.

top1000domains.com

Cheers!

photos911 · May 25th, 2002, 10:32 PM

I started at geocities about 4 years ago. When I finally started getting good at webdesign and webmastering I was limited by there stupid crap. I eventually got a paid host at nomonthlyfees.com. They were good until my site started to get alot of traffic and they started charging me $100/month for extra bandwidth. My point is. It isn't good to buy hosting from a site that has Free hosting option. Because normally it is just an little upgrade from the free option.

I suggest the following host:

http://www.getwebspace.com - This host is good if you need a powerful script support. Only bad thing they dont support CGI scripts that uses .htaccess due to security reasons.

Alot of my sites are hosted with them and I have had no downtime. Except of times it has been my fault.

Undeadlord · May 25th, 2002, 11:22 PM

A friend of mine runs www.veracitynetworks.com ... He is a good guy and prices are very good. Give it a try.

Undeadlord

qball · May 25th, 2002, 11:45 PM

all that crap...

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I started at geocities about 4 years ago. When I finally started getting good at webdesign and webmastering I was limited by there stupid crap.

Is that how you felt 4 yrs ago?

When, you were getting good and crap, did their website work?

Quote:

I had a free site with geocities and just got fed up with their crap.

photos911 · May 26th, 2002, 12:17 AM

I never liked geocities.

Beemer · May 26th, 2002, 04:51 PM

Yes "Crap". I designed a sight to help others with basic tips and tricks and some registry hacks to help folks out with performance problems. I don't make any money off of it in any shape or form.

If one of my pages is accessed 9 times in an hour by one person or many, the monthly averaging of 3 gigs is decided on by an hourly basis of traffic of that one page. If the current traffic keeps up at accessed 9 times within an hour, by the end of the month I will have acceded my 3 gig limit of my entire site. The whole site is shut down for a period of time to balance out the predicted amount of traffic based on that one page being accessed the 9 times. I have never had 3 gigs of traffic at any time on any server due to my web page traffic. If I have an allotted 3 gigs of traffic, shut me down at 3 gigs! This is how it was run for years and I never got shut down. I just looked over my stats on my present host and my biggest weekly amount is 370 MB's of traffic. Multiply that by 5 if you like and I still only have 1.5 gigs of traffic roughly.

Removing the FTP means a lot of extra work and time to get files up on a geocities host. Especially if I'm changing a template used on all pages. I'd rather be working on my pages than tediously setting up the file manager to accept many files at one time and individually selecting each file with a browse button.

For a small simple site with hardly any traffic and no maintenance needs, geocities is fine. But if you actually want to have an active site, forget it.

Cheers!

photos911 · May 26th, 2002, 08:58 PM

Geocities are for people that want a site so that they can brag about it at school, work, other crap.

"OH MY! He's got his own website!" lol. At least that is how it is at my school.

I dont think you have a website until you get 1000's of hits and 100s of customers daily.

Also a good site must have a good database and system.

But geocities is the place to learn, then you need to move to better free host. The eventually to a paid host.

qball · May 29th, 2002, 12:28 AM

Beemer,

I agree that the 3gig bandwith is an issue, an issue I had:

So I sent the following email. btw, never got reply...

Quote:

I realize that being a free website, I don't have much
as leverage.

But, 3 gig/month seems reasonable. Monitored HOURLY
means about 4.3 meg/hr. Now is limit 3 gig/month or
4.3 meg/hr?

So what you can do is either make the bandwidth 3
gig/month or stop stating the 'bandwidth is 3
gig/month monitored hourly' and just state 'bandwidth
is 4.3 meg/hour.

Your juggling of units is confusing when it should not
be confusing.

It's all unit analysis!

What did you do? Stop complaining about 'free' stuff, because no one is forcing you to use the 'free' stuff.

Beemer · May 29th, 2002, 01:07 AM

Free is one thing. Playing by their own hidden rules and making us go by an other set of rules is unfair. One or the other is the complaint. I just like to know where I stand is all when I commit a lot of time and effort into making my site and then have to change to another host.

Cheers!