> 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...
>
> --
> Marc Martin, [hidden email]