Not that this is news to anyone...

[helen99]

A couple of old Geocities sites that I'm linked to were timing out when I tried to access them just now (trying to update links on the website).

I looked up Geocities to see what was up, and found this. The end of the article says, "On 1st October 2008 Geocities removed old sites from their servers thereby losing countless website builders all of their sites."

I guess that might explain it, but the pages just timed out - I didn't get a "not found," so I assume the pages are still there (maybe). I do know Yahoo!Geocities severely limited the bandwidth for free sites in recent years, so that could also be it... or my ad-blocking options prevent the pages from loading... or the server itself is overloaded.

In any case, I think they outlived their usefulness as a reliable web host many years ago, so if you have old material that you care about stored on Geocities, you may want to back it up.

Comments

Re: Angelfire

[rebelfilms.livejournal.com]

Phew, we're OK.

Re: Angelfire

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I think the current problem is with my workplace rather than with Angelfire or Geocities. Both of these worked fine from home, but still fail to load from my work computer (probably just as well - they tend to deposit adware). They're not actively blocked, but they time out if I try to access them, as if the server was very busy or experiencing problems.

Geocities has purged old sites without notice, but that seems to be unrelated to my inability to access them at the moment.