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If you had a site on geocities you can probably still get it from either the Archive team torrent or from http://reocities.com/ , simply append your old url. There is a 'self service' bit (see the FAQ) where you can archive your website and have a download link mailed to you.

It's been running for a few years now and gets approximately 35K unique visitors daily.

From a commercial point of view it is a complete failure but the emails from happy people that I keep getting about the project are more than enough payment.

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If you can't find it on reocities, try http://oocities.com as well. No idea which generally has more or if they both have pretty solid collections. My lame 12-year-old music fan site is preserved on both!

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I get a "page not found (yet)" (when I attempt to get to my old site) which suggests that you're still in the process of restoring pages. Is this still the case? Or do I assume that my data is long gone at this point.

Edit: Even if my data is gone, I really appreciate what you've done; and I'm sure others do too. Wish Yahoo had shuttered it more gracefully.

I am really sorry, unfortunately it is pretty safe to assume the data is long gone unless one of the other preservation efforts snagged it.

I have very long list of wanted sites but only a handful of those were recovered in the last year (mostly from local caches on old pc's).

I don't think the archive will every be completed.

No need to be sorry. Thanks for setting the service up and trying! I'm sure it's helped lots of people.

As for my site; I'm sure I have backup's (somewhere :) of the really valuable data. It's just more for taking a look at My First Website and reeling at the horror more than anything else.

Ugh. I think my old page had a "Free Kevin Mitnick" banner next to an animated gif that said "Made with Macintosh". Not that these clues narrow it down very much, if you want to find my page.

Hack the planet, dude. :)

I love the story about how you did all this, especially considering the time constraint of Geocities shutting down in a couple of days: http://www.reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html

Awesome job!

Is there anything like this for Homestead.com? I can't remember any Geocities URL's

Homestead is still up and running, though we did start culling sites that had no visits and no logins a while ago.

(I was a co-founder of Homestead.)

Ah, this breaks my heart. Homestead was the very first service I used, ever. Thanks so much for it :)

You guys had the BEST loading animations, with that dancing h-house.

How much does it cost you to host it? How do you host it (from compressed archives)?

It's all static, no compression (just one large xfs file tree), it costs a few hundred euros per month. At the time the server (20T) was quite expensive, one of these days it will have to be re-done and fortunately storage costs have come down quite a bit so the per-month write off on the server will be (a lot) lower.

Oh I wish I had that much money for side projects.

You could save a lot of space by hosting from a compressed filesystem or compressed archives (eg through avfs) at the cost of some CPU cycles.

also http://geocities.ws has an archive.

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