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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Free web hosting provider T35 Hosting (www.t35.com) announced on Friday it intends to capitalize on the scheduled closure of Yahoo's Geocities (geocities.yahoo.com), after launching its recent redesign that aims at improving usability and user experience.
In April, Yahoo announced it is shutting down the long-standing free web hosting service GeoCities.
The service saw a significant decrease in popularity over the years, which can partly be attributed to the development of social media community services.
With Geocities on the brink of closure, T35 says it looks to pick up market share from what was once its largest competitor.
"The closure of Geocities marks the end of an era in free online web hosting, and we're happy to announce that the decision for T35 and our customers will only be a positive one," says Alex Melen, president of T35 Hosting. "We have undergone a significant redesign of our website, not only in terms of appearance, but also in usability, adding a range of features to shore-up the user experience and provide a better all round service to our hosting customers."
Since its inception in 1997, T35 Hosting has offered customers a range of hosting solutions from ad-supported to feature-heavy cPanel web hosting. Its latest redesign also includes a range of value-added features for both free and paid hosting customers, to improve user experience.
T35's free web hosting plans are designed for users who just want to get a page or a site out on the Internet.
These plans have no limits on space or bandwidth because they are supported by a smaller footer link placed on all of the member pages.
The company's paid hosting plans offer 1GB to 4GB of disk space and 20GB to 80GB of bandwidth.
The paid plans also offer more advanced features, including unlimited emails, unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited domains, and cPanel hosting control panel.
Another organization has also responded to the closure of Geocities, albeit in a very different way.
In April, Jason Scott's Archive Team announced it would archive sites hosted on the free Yahoo service, saving more than 200,000 Geocities websites.
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Comment by Anonymous on Friday, June 19, 2009
Great article. I've used T35 in the past and they are definitely one of the better web hosts out there.