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To “celebrate” the shutting down of Geocities, Dreamhost is offering a free account for 2 years (usually priced at around €162) to everyone that has a Geocities account:

“In honor of WebRing” or something, we are now offering to the first 1000 GeoCities users who sign up TWO YEARS of a completely free DreamHost account (including domain registration)!

No strings attached.

All you have to do is verify you are an existing GeoCities customer by creating a page on your GeoCities account (or editing an existing page) to have the phrase “I’m off to DreamHost!” on it!

Then when you signup for us, simply put the full url to that page as your “promotional code” and you’ll get a 2 year plan (normally $214.80) free!

And we promise to never shut down.

It’s all on their blog, along with a brief history of WebRing, a site that has been around almost since The Beginning (of the Internet) and was part of Geocities. Entertaining read for those of you who were around at the time (I think I remember seeing it…).

Anyway, the offer of free hosting and domain registration for 2 years is not to be missed. This blog is on Dreamhost and everything has been running quite smoothly (the only glitch was quickly solved). So I guess I would recommend them, although I don’t know about scalability because this blog has (for now) very low traffic. At least they always have great promotions. If you can’t get your hands on a Geocities account, using the promotional code “777″ to sign up will give you one year hosting and domain registration for just under €7 (Earth Day promotion, so it won’t last a lot of time, I would say).

I’m guessing a hunt for Geocities accounts will start…