Ive made a good website using geocities and it's web page builder. However geocities is turning geo****ty and the site is always down to some bandwidth problem. Is there a way to sucessfully copy that whole website exactly and find a new host easily? Freeservices.com offered some a program like that but it doesn't work...:angry:

Save all the HTML files to your hard drive, all image files, etc.

Internet Explorer can do this for you actually, if I recall. Go to the main page of your site, then go to File > Save As and select Website complete.

I'm 99% sure that's how it's done, if not, you can just save them manually.

Then get a paid host, there are some that are $1-2 a month (for basic services, better than GeoCities however) and you're set.

do a search on google for a program that will allow you to save sites to view offline :)

Geocities limit everyone to 1gb per day if your using that much a day you really should be using a paid host

If you save the site that way though you will also get the extra geocities code that they add to the site.

You need to go to your site builder area and get the code and images directly from there.

I thought Geocities supported FTP ?? If so FTP your files

Geocities limit everyone to 1gb per day if your using that much a day you really should be using a paid host

It's actually around 150mb a day which then in turn is split into an hourly allowance :D

If you don't have a large site it would be best to save the pages manually, saving from file > save as in internet explorer will replace any paths to images like http://yoursite/images/pic.gif with the path to where you saved the file eg c:\my documents\pic.gif which would be a headache when you come to upload the files somewhere else.

This is all assuming of course, you are using the free hosting, you didn't actually state.

If you're on a paid plan there should be some option to backup your site.

If you're a paid user of Geo, you can use the FTP. They took it away from the free users about a year ago.

Originally posted by rsaylor
I thought Geocities supported FTP ?? If so FTP your files

ya for free + ( I still really don't understand this bandwidth thing.

Think of bandwidth like minutes on your cell phone. Except instead of measuring "time", the bandwidth measurement measures the number of "bytes" sent from your site to the person's browser.

If you have a very large HTML page with lots of graphics, it will "cost you" more in bandwidth for someone to view it than a page without any graphics.

And if someone hotlinks to a picture on your site, they can "steal" your bandwidth even without visiting your site! Ouch, that hurts! If you go shopping for a plan, make sure you can ban hotlinking ... you can on a Linux server with the .htaccess file (or from some of the control panels like Cpanel). I'm not sure about the Windows servers out there, but I suspect there's a way to prevent it there too.

Originally posted by Technics
do a search on google for a program that will allow you to save sites to view offline :)

Geocities limit everyone to 1gb per day if your using that much a day you really should be using a paid host

Where on earth did you get that info from? if geocities allows 1GB transfer per day then thats 28GB transfer Per Month. Gosh if that was the case i would be hosting my media files on geocities. I think you should re-check your sources

well what do you expect for free? get a paid host, they are much much better :)

BM, these type programs are what I call "Site Grabbers" although, others sometimes refer to them as "Site Rippers". One of the best I've so far evaluated is WebReaper (http://www.webreaper.net/). Does a very nice job and a free version is available.

BTW, "bandwidth" is a mis-nomer. The correct term is "Data Transfer", but a lot of people (even those who know better ;)) use the shorter, easier to type, word. If someone were to ask you how many miles per gallon you get with your vehicle and your replied, "a 24 gallon gas tank", would that make any sense?

Bandwidth is size -- how big is the pipe used to send/receive the information (T1, T3, OC3, etc)
Data Transfer is amount -- how many MB / GB can be transferred per month (the usual reference)

MrAlien: Paid hosts aren't *always* better

Featureprice *hint* *hint*

Well, paid hosts are a step up from free ones, but *some* paid host's do suck..
*hint hint*
-Max