Neocities
open-source personal web hosting service
Neocities is a commercial web hosting service for static pages. It offers 1 GB of storage space, 200 GB of bandwidth for free sites and no server-side scripting for both paid and free subscriptions. The service's expressed goal is to "revive the support of free web hosting of the now-defunct GeoCities". Neocities was launched in 2013 by Kyle Drake. As of May 25, 2026, it has hosted more than 1,763,200 sites. The service is powered by an open-source backend provided under the FreeBSD license.
History
Neocities was created by Kyle Drake on May 23, 2013, and launched on June 28, 2013, offering 10 megabytes of file storage for every user. It initially served as an archive for sites previously hosted on GeoCities before the latter's shutdown.
On May 8, 2014, Neocities announced that it would limit the bandwidth speed of the FCC headquarters to early dial-up modem speeds as a protest against FCC's stance on net neutrality. This protest received wide attention and lasted until February 2, 2015.
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