Posted by Marc Martin-2 on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/ufo-simplenet-com-soon-only-a-fond-memory-tp1489733.html

Hi All,

Lisa pointed out to me an important piece of news for all owners of SimpleNet
websites:

September 7, 2000 - Upgrading Your Account
As you may well know, SimpleNet was acquired by
Yahoo! in July 1999. We are in the process of
converting all SimpleNet Accounts to Yahoo!
Website Services Accounts. SimpleNet Basic
Accounts must be upgraded or cancelled by
January 15, 2001.

What does this mean? First of all, it means that ufo.simplenet.com
(and all other websites with simplenet in their name) is going to
have a name change, since Yahoo doesn't offer these types of names.

Secondly, it means that it's time to start shopping for a new web
hosting provider. Simplenet has been wonderful for the past several
years, providing practically unlimited disk space & traffic for only
$10 per month. However, Yahoo doesn't offer anything like that. The
closest thing they've got for my site is the "Plus Web" package,
which offers 250 MB of disk space & 30 GB of monthly traffic for $40
per month. Since my site currently uses 280 MB of disk space, this
would mean that I would have to remove 30 MB of stuff. Since my site
has about 20 GB of monthly traffic, this doesn't appear to be a
problem. However, since the cost is 4 times higher, doing some
shopping around seems like a good idea...

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Marc Martin, [hidden email]