Neocities

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Neocities
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Penelope, the mascot of Neocities
Type of site
Web hosting
Created byKyle Drake
URLneocities.org
CommercialYes
RegistrationYes
LaunchedJune 28, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-06-28)
Written inRuby

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Neocities' Text Editor

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 May 25th, 2026, it hosted more than 1,612,500 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 May 2025, Neocities allows 1 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth to free users, and 50 GB of storage and 3000 GB of bandwidth to "supporters".

File:Sadgrl Neocities Page.png
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

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Drake, Kyle (May 28, 2013). "Making the Web Fun Again". The Neocities Blog. Archived from the original on June 7, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jackson, Candace (July 17, 2017). "The Latest in Web Design? Retro Websites Inspired by the '90s". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neocities.org". Archived from the original on May 25, 2026. Retrieved May 25, 2026. Neocities is a social network of 1,612,500 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NeoCities is bringing the eye-bleeding "spirit" of GeoCities back to the modern web". TechSpot. June 15, 2023. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."neocities/LICENSE.txt at master ¡ neocities/neocities". GitHub. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stockton, Nick (May 8, 2016). "NeoCities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking". Wired. Retrieved December 12, 2021.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Drake, Kyle (May 23, 2013). "I want to make another Geocities. Free web hosting, static HTML only, 10MB limit, anonymous, uncensored". Twitter. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth". May 8, 2014. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Drake, Kyle (May 9, 2014). "The "fast lane" to internet civil war". The Neocities Blog. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
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  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."We have removed the FCC rate limit". The Neocities Blog. February 4, 2015. Archived from the original on June 21, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Koebler, Jason (October 26, 2015). "There's An Entire Conference Dedicated to Geocities-Style Websites". Motherboard. Vice Media. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dewey, Caitlin (November 10, 2015). "The counterintuitive, GIF-tastic plan to redeem the modern Internet". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on October 18, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neocities: Create your own free website!". Archived from the original on May 26, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2025. Neocities is a social network of 460,000 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Neocities (February 10, 2025). "One million sites 🎉". Bluesky. Retrieved March 1, 2025.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neocities: Create your own free website!". Archived from the original on February 10, 2025. Retrieved March 1, 2025. Neocities is a social network of 1,000,500 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neocities". neocities.org. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Valens, Ana (August 8, 2019). "The best web hosting services for sex workers and adult artists". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neocities - Command Line Interface". Neocities. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neocities - Site Mount Information". Neocities. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neocities - Developers API". Neocities. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neocities - Allowed File Types". Neocities. n.d. Archived from the original on June 26, 2022. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
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