Software:Neocities

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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.[1][2] As of October 2025, it hosted more than 1,298,400 sites.[3] The service is powered by an open-source backend provided under the FreeBSD license.[4][5]

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.[6] It initially served as an archive for sites previously hosted on GeoCities before the latter's shutdown.[7]

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.[8][9] This protest received wide attention[10] and lasted until February 2, 2015.[11]

The service hosted about 55,000 to 57,000 sites in 2015,[12][13] which had risen to over 460,000 by 2022,[14] and 615,700 by 2023. On February 10, 2025, Neocities reached over one million hosted sites.[15][16]

As of currently, Neocities allows 1 GB of storage, 200 GB of bandwidth to free users, and 50 GB of storage, 3000 GB of bandwidth to "supporters".

The Neocities page of Sadgrl, a well-known webmaster on Neocities. All Neocities users have a publicly-viewable profile, unless they have chosen to hide it.

Neocities claims that if the bandwidth limit is reached, the website won't be taken down immediately. "This is a soft limit. Temporary surges are fine, we won't take your site down immediately, and we're very flexible."[17]

Usage

Neocities allows users to create their own websites using HTML, CSS,[18] and JavaScript, and the development tool comes with a built-in debugger for these languages. The intention is for users to create personal websites reminiscent of GeoCities. Files can be modified by using Neocities' own web text editor, or uploaded directly either within the dashboard, using the Neocities command-line tool,[19] WebDAV mounting,[20] or their REST API.[21]

Neocities has 2 options for users to store their data. A free plan, which has 1 gigabyte of data storage and slower transfer speeds, and a paid plan, which allows 50 gigabytes of storage and faster transfer speeds. The paid plan costs $5.00 per month, and funds go to server expenses.

The files that free users can host on Neocities are restricted to HTML files, CSS files, JavaScript files, Markdown files, XML files, text files, fonts and images. By upgrading to their paid plan, this restriction is removed. This restriction is in place to prevent it from becoming a "file dump".[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Drake, Kyle (May 28, 2013). "Making the Web Fun Again". https://neocities.org/blog/making-the-web-fun-again. 
  2. ↑ Jackson, Candace (2017-07-17). "The Latest in Web Design? Retro Websites Inspired by the '90s" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/fashion/90s-web-design.html. 
  3. ↑ "Neocities.org". https://neocities.org/. ""Neocities is a social network of 1,298,400 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web."" 
  4. ↑ "NeoCities is bringing the eye-bleeding "spirit" of GeoCities back to the modern web" (in en-US). 2023-06-15. https://www.techspot.com/news/99085-neocities-bringing-eye-bleeding-spirit-geocities-back-modern.html. 
  5. ↑ "neocities/LICENSE.txt at master · neocities/neocities" (in en). https://github.com/neocities/neocities/blob/master/LICENSE.txt. 
  6. ↑ Stockton, Nick (2016-05-08). "NeoCities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2013/07/neocities/. Retrieved December 12, 2021. 
  7. ↑ Drake, Kyle (May 23, 2013). "I want to make another Geocities. Free web hosting, static HTML only, 10MB limit, anonymous, uncensored.". https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/337706291801763841. 
  8. ↑ "We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth". May 8, 2014. https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2014/05/08/fcc-rate-limit.html. 
  9. ↑ Drake, Kyle (May 9, 2014). "The "fast lane" to internet civil war". https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2014/05/09/internet-civil-war.html. 
  10. ↑ "Young Turks - FCC Gets A Taste Of It's [sic] Own Medicine". May 9, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRdpwVSCa8. 
  11. ↑ "We have removed the FCC rate limit". February 4, 2015. https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/02/04/removed-fcc-rate-limit.html. 
  12. ↑ Koebler, Jason (October 26, 2015). "There's An Entire Conference Dedicated to Geocities-Style Websites". Motherboard (Vice Media). https://www.vice.com/en/article/theres-an-entire-conference-dedicated-to-geocities-style-websites/. 
  13. ↑ Dewey, Caitlin (November 10, 2015). "The counterintuitive, GIF-tastic plan to redeem the modern Internet" (in en-US). The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/11/10/the-counterintuitive-gif-tastic-plan-to-redeem-the-modern-internet/. 
  14. ↑ "Neocities: Create your own free website!". https://neocities.org/. "Neocities is a social network of 460,000 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web." 
  15. ↑ Neocities (2025-02-10). "One million sites 🎉". https://bsky.app/profile/neocities.org/post/3lhu7xapg3s2x. 
  16. ↑ "Neocities: Create your own free website!". https://neocities.org/. "Neocities is a social network of 1,000,500 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web." 
  17. ↑ "Neocities" (in en). https://neocities.org/supporter. 
  18. ↑ Valens, Ana (August 8, 2019). "The best web hosting services for sex workers and adult artists". The Daily Dot. https://www.dailydot.com/irl/best-web-hosting-sex-workers-adult-creators-nsfw-content/. 
  19. ↑ "Neocities - Command Line Interface" (in en). https://neocities.org/cli. 
  20. ↑ "Neocities - Site Mount Information" (in en). https://neocities.org/site_files/mount_info. 
  21. ↑ "Neocities - Developers API" (in en). https://neocities.org/api. 
  22. ↑ "Neocities - Allowed File Types". n.d.. https://neocities.org/site_files/allowed_types. 



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