Below is the step by step procedure for how to switch you website From GeoCities,

Here we go,

This is what you have to do to move your site to another web host. Note that the following steps are important regardless of the possibility that you are moving to Yahoo’s! Own business web hosting services.

1. At first, Get your own Domain name

The main thing to do is to get your own domain name. When you have your own domain name, you will never again be a prisoner of any web host, free or something else. When they close, and close they all will in the long run, everything you need to do is to simply move your domain to another host, and you don’t need to stress over your site evolving URLs (web addresses).

This step is not by any means “obligatory” or anything like that. All things considered, you’ve survived every one of these years on GeoCities without doing it. To be sure, you can just move again to another free web host without a domain name, and use their URL for your webpage. However, consider what will happen if that host closes as well. Yup. You’ll need to experience all the bother once more.

2. Download all your website Files

Sign into your GeoCities hosting service control Panel. Click on the “Manage” tab in the control panel. On the page that shows up, click on the “File Manager”. Ensure the “Show” radio catch is chosen, and all the checkboxes close to it for “html”, “gif”, “jpg” and “other” are checked. Click on the”Open File Manager”.  A complete list of all the files will show up.

The files that includes names ending with “.html” are your site pages. For every HTML document, each one in turn, perform the following:

• Select that HTML document by putting a check in the container alongside the filename.
• Click on the “Edit” button.
• A page will show up with a big box in the center. The box contains the code for your website page. Click some place inside of that box, select everything in that case and copy it to the clipboard. To do this, snap your right mouse catch while the mouse cursor is in the case. In the menu that shows up, snap “Select All”. At that point right snap your mouse again and select “Copy”.
• Open an ASCII word processor on your PC. For Windows clients, you can do this by running Notepad. (For XP clients, Notepad can be found in the “Adornments” organizer of your “Project Files”. For Vista clients, simply tap the begin menu catch and sort “scratch pad” trailed by the ENTER key.) If you use some other working system, ensure you conjure a genuine ASCII content tool and not a wordprocessor or office suite.
• Paste the content of the clipboard into the proofreader. In case you use Notepad, simply tap the “Edit” menu, also “paste” same in the menu that shows up. Save the file with the same filename that you found in GeoCities file manager. In the event that you don’t know where to save it, make an organizer on your Desktop, call it “site”, and save the file in that folder.

Repeat the same method for the various documents that have names ending with “.html”.

The files with names that end with “.gif”, “.jpg” or “.png” are picture files. To get each of these photos, check the case close to the filename, and click the “View” link on the same line. The photo will show up in your web program. Save the photo on your PC. One way to do this is to tap the “File” menu in your program, followed by the “View As” thing in the menu that shows up. At that point supply the same filename that you found in the GeoCities File Manager for that document. Repeat this process for rest of the image files.

When you have finished downloading all the files, search for any subfolders in the File Manager. Subfolders have a file symbol by their names. They ordinarily have no extensions (that is, they don’t have “.html”, “.gif” or anything like that). If you see one or more subfolders in the File Manager, you should click the subfolder name to open it. Another page will stack with a list of documents in that subfolder. Repeat the above procedure with every one of the files in the subfolder, however save them in a subfolder of the same name on your PC. For instance, if you have a subfolder called “pictures” and the file on your Desktop is called “site”, save the files from that organizer into another sub-folder in your “site” index called “pictures”. When you’re finished with the subfolder, click the “Up one level” link to backtrack to your principle site index. Rehash the whole process for each subfolder you see, whether it is in your primary web folder or any subfolder under that.

Are you not able to Find Certain Files? Then check below,

If your website has pictures, however you don’t see any photo files (files ending with “gif”, “jpg” and “png”) in the “File Manager”, it might imply that you’ve made your site using Yahoo’s! PageWizard or PageBuilder (or whatever they call their site manufacturer these days). In such a case, the photos don’t have a place with you yet are the protected innovation of Yahoo!. As said in the article Is It Better to Use an Online Site Builder or a Standalone Web Editor?, this is one of the issues about using online webpage developers to make your site. You wind up with a website with parts that have a place with your web host. When you have to change web has, you are not permitted to take the webpage outline alongside you.

In such a case, if you’ve downloaded the website pages to your PC, those site pages are not finished. They may not appear accurately in a program when you transfer them to your new web host. Your most logical option is to reproduce those pages using an appropriate web editorial manager like Dreamweaver or KompoZer. See the Dreamweaver tutorial videos or the KompoZer tutorial videos for more data on the most proficient method. Since you have a copied of your old website pages on your PC, you can just copy the data from your old page to your new pages without having to reconsider everything. Obviously the configuration and format of your new page will must be revamped starting with no outside help, since Yahoo! claims your old configuration.

While it’s possible for you to save your site pages by simply setting off to your site itself with a program, there are reactions when you do that. When you save in such a way, your saved copys will wind up having all of GeoCities adverts included in it. When you transfer them to your new web have, your page will keep on containing GeoCities adverts and other shrouded labels embedded into your page by their web server.

3. Get a New Web Host, Be it Free or Commercial

The following step is to get another web host (clearly).

Those searching for business hosts can discover a rundown on the Budget Web Hosting page. For the individuals who are interested, the web host I’m as of now using for thesitewizard.com.

For the free web hosts, if you have your own particular domain name, search for a free web have that gives free area name hosting. Something else, simply look at the changed sorts of free web has on thefreecountry.com. The web hosts are sorted into various pages as per the kind of services they give.

4. Update Your Web Pages

Before you republish your website on your new web host, you might need to remove them to remove references to your old URLs (web addresses), if any. If you are not one of the individuals who need to reproduce all your website pages totally (as said above), you can essentially use another editor manager and point them to your current pages. The method for doing it with Dreamweaver and KompoZer can be found in the article How Do I Edit an Existing Site with Dreamweaver, Nvu or KompoZer.

5. Publish Your Web Pages on your new Web Host

If you didn’t have to change over or edit your website, however have figured out how to download your whole website, complete with pictures, to your PC, you can just use an extraordinary sort of system, called a FTP customer, to distribute your webpage to your new host.

Related Article: How to Upload a File to your website using FileZilla FTP Client

6. Get back and Modify Your Old GeoCities Web Pages

When you have distributed your pages and tried to ensure that your new webpage works, it’s an ideal opportunity to redesign your old GeoCities site page to link to your new site.

There are essentially 2 things that should be completed.

• You should put an extraordinary HTML tag into your old site to indicate your new one. In fact, you are embeddings what is known as a “META invigorate tag”. It fills the accompanying needs:
• Firstly, when your guest reaches your old site page, their web program will naturally divert them to your new site.
• Also, it tells the web search tools that your website page has changed area. Note this is not a decent method for telling internet searchers that your website has moved, however it’s the main path conceivable with Geocities.
• You might likewise need to remove the content from your old website page, and supplant it with a brief notice that your webpage has moved. What’s more, put a connection to your new site on the page. Despite the fact that the META revive tag said above should consequently bring about your guest’s program to stack your new site, it is workable for clients to arrange their programs to restrict the invigorate. A noticeable connection into your new page in such cases will offer those guests some assistance with locating your new page.

The META Refresh tag resembles this.

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; URL=http://www.example.com/newpage.html”/>

• The web address (URL) “http://www.example.com/newpage.html” ought to obviously be supplanted by the identical location on your new site. Note that the “0” above is a zero, not the letter “o”.
• You should add such a tag to each and every page on your old GeoCities site. The URL in every tag will obviously be distinctive, contingent upon the area of the comparable page on your new site. You might be enticed to be sluggish, and simply use the URL of your primary page, (for example, “http://www.example.com/”) as the URL for all pages, yet I unequivocally prescribe that you require the push to divert each page to their proportional upgraded rendition on your new site. This is not just accommodating in minimizing the loss of your audiences, who might some way or another think your site is gone on the off chance that they are conveyed to your principle page, yet it might likewise offer the web indexes some assistance with figuring out where every page has moved to and give your new page the same sort of significance your old page had.

Here’s the way by which to include the Meta refresh tag:

• While signed into your GeoCities File Manager, put a check beside the HTML file that you’re altering. Click the “Alter” catch in the File Manager.
• The GeoCities “HTML Editor” will open, with your site page showing up in the huge box in-between the page.
• Put your cursor quickly AFTER the word <head> on the same line. Embed your Meta revive tag there.
• When you’re set, tap the “Save” catch in the GeoCities HTML Editor. You will be come back to the File Manager. Continue to do likewise with the other HTML files.
• If you additionally need to alter your website page to demonstrate an unmistakable connection to your new page, you ought to do it BEFORE you make the above strides. Yes, I said BEFORE. This is on the grounds that the Yahoo! PageBuilder and PageWizard will overwrite any Meta Refresh label you physically embed when you change your site pages. In that capacity, roll out whatever obvious improvements to your website page using whichever strategy you’re used to (whether with the PageBuilder or PageWizard or whatever), then when you’ve completed, embed the Meta Refresh tag with the technique said above.
• If you can’t recollect how to change your site page( (perhaps on the grounds that you’ve since quite a while ago surrendered your site and just recalled that it now that Geocities is shutting), either make sense of it using Yahoo’s! online help, or simply don’t make a big deal about rolling out the noticeable improvements. Rather, simply embed the Meta invigorate tag. It’s not perfect, but rather then, nothing is perfect about the entire circumstance at any rate. Putting the Meta invigorate tag is at any rate superior to doing nothing.

Note that the Meta invigorate tag is the motivation behind why you earnestly need to make a move now, before GeoCities really closes. When GeoCities shuts, your old site will vanish, alongside any Meta revive labels you embed on your pages. You need the labels to be on your pages for whatever length of time that conceivable, giving time for normal guests to see your change of location, and in addition web crawlers to discover it and upgrade their postings.

7. Getting other Websites about Your Change of Web Address

If you can be annoyed, go to Google and search in into the box “link:YOUR-GEOCITIES-WEB-ADDRESS”. Supplant “YOUR-GEOCITIES-WEB-ADDRESS” with your current GeoCities web address. For instance, if your web location is “www.geocities.com/abc/xyz/1234”, sort “link:www.geocities.com/abc/xyz /1234” into Google.

A list of sites that link to that particular web location will show up. The list is not finished, and it’s likely just for sites that link to that specific page on your site (your principle page). Go to each of those sites, and use their webpage’s contact structure (or whatever strategy the website gives) to tell them that your web address has changed. Just remember to give them your new URL.

You might not know the free web hosting providers can close their free services at any time which may put your business into risk. Yet, they will inform you before closing down their services according to the terms and conditions. But, what is the use of it? You need to move all the content to the new server which is very difficult and time taking process. Likewise if they close new registrations and keep safe their hosted domains then you can divert your links to your new domain, else if that they totally close off their services, and then you can’t divert your old links. Therefore, all your old links will turn out to be dead.

Such a large number of things on the web work on the freemium model, so we are all acclimated to expect freebies. In any case, in the event that you are a business, the one thing that you certainly need to put resources into is your web presence. Given the minimal effort of web hosting and the domain registrations nowadays, it is basically not justified, despite any potential benefits to utilize free web hosting.

Here are few common issues and burdens with your hosting account, when you grab it for free,

1. Poor/No Customer Support

Your site crashes. Database gets lost. Somebody hacked your site. It’s your problem, and you can’t anticipate that your free host will solve it. They won’t give 24×7 Live Chat or Ticket system.

Regardless of the fact that you mail to the default Support email address (say support@free-host.com), it will take years to get an answer, I bet that will likewise be a default one like, “Your question has been gotten and an individual from our staff will survey it and answer in like manner.” The End.

2. Advertisements

If suppose you ask, “Why might somebody give something for nothing?”, the expression “Ad” becomes an integral factor. They adapt your account or your website and gain through it.

In return for your free hosting space, they will keep promotions on your site. These advertisements support your free host and give them the money back they contributed. The notices will be regularly appear and pop-under.

In Websites : They used to show a leaderboard advertisement at the highest point of each site hosted on their free hosting servers.

In cPanel and Plesk : That’s not the end, they’ll additionally put a few promotions in your cPanel or Plesk, and you have to reconsider before clicking a link, that may be a commercial.

3. Poor Downtime

You won’t have stable uptime. Since it is free you can expect more number of clients there. Free has won’t have much asset to control every one of those clients, so you can expect a decent downtime from time to time. You would prefer not to baffle your audience with a “Server Not Found” or any such mistakes right?

You compose some amazing posts and it gets viral, following day in the event that you check the Analytics it will be underneath the typical extent. Why? Site gets down in view of that viral activity.

4. Not Reliable

It’s impractical to trust them altogether. They won’t trouble your site much, they have different attempts to do.

Such free hosting providers can close down or quit giving you the services with no former notification.

5. Less added features

Free Hosts won’t have much important features on ordinary “web host” need to have. They have confined components which is accessible for premium account holders. They won’t have fantastico, Softaculous and more. Why we require them? Since you won’t have any issue for installing WordPress, it takes just few clicks.

That is not the end, you have unlimited features on premium web hosts and that’ll spare you lots and lots of time, so you can deal with different stuffs.

6. Loss of Credibility

You can’t expect your clients or customers to believe your services when you utilize a free host for your platforms. They will feel that you are not genuine about what you are doing.

On the off chance that you ask me, I’ll consider, what the point is in procuring money when you can’t purchase a decent host for your site. It won’t be useful for marking your online journals or sites. When somebody discovers that you are utilizing such has, they rarely approach you for any service or analysis about hosting.

7. Absence of Security

Indeed, even huge and dependable facilitating administrations are confronting these issues and they are attempting their best to upgrade their security. So we can have a protected side there. Programmers regularly target free has and discover the escape clauses.

Ordinarily in shared hosting, if the programmers can get to one site, then they can without much of a stretch access the various destinations by utilizing malware or other hacking methods. Try not to be a casualty of this.

8. Moderate Loading Pages

Keep in mind Google abhors that. All the more vitally, your audience detests that. You don’t need your audience to bookmark your post (say some instructional exercise) and overlook that totally right?

Free has poor design, so you will have issues while stacking the pages. Adding more fuel to the fire, even some store modules won’t work.

9. It will influence, when you add your blog

At a certain point you might need to offer your site and having a free host.It will diminish the quality/cost of your blog. That is one thing.

Also, you can won’t ready to effectively exchange the information from your current host to new one. Having a host with bolster office makes this procedure without whine.

10. Constrained Disk Space and Bandwidth

All things considered, self-evident, restricted space and data transfer capacity. Why would you like to encourage your online journal with low quality food? Having poor space and data transfer capacity will annihilate your blog soon.

If your website draws an excessive amount of activity in future, then your blog will be influenced by that low data transfer capacity.

11. You have your Blog with spammy sites

That is the thing that “Mutual Hosting” is about. You have your site alongside different sites in a server. On the off chance that it is a free host, you can gloat yourself that you are hosting your webpage with a few perilous spammy sites. In this way diminishing the general positioning of your site.

You can use tools like Yougetsignal for doing a converse IP Check to discover the areas facilitated on your server. Keep in mind such spam locales influence positioning of different destinations facilitated on same the server.

12. Regularly Hosted On Sub domains

The vast majority of the free has won’t have the element to connect with your DNS. So you’ll most likely end with their sub domain for your site.

Assume if your host’s name is example.com then you might need to utilize something like yourdomain.example.com for your site. Looks disillusioning? You must choose between limited options.

13. Strict file size limits

They have record size points of confinement. So on the off chance that you have a high determination picture or some video cuts, you won’t have the capacity to transfer utilizing your free hosting plan. You’ll likely wind up with messing the server. Verging on each free hosting plan has strict document size cutoff points.

14. Short and inconsistent FTP sessions

When you attempt to transfer or download a few records utilizing FTP customer like Filezilla, you might confront short sessions, and you may not effectively get or send every one of the documents as a result of short session.

What’s more, those sessions could be untrustworthy, so you may confront interruption.

15. No Tutorials

In the event that you are hosting your website on HostGator, you’ll discover huge amounts of instructional exercises with respect to them on the web. Be that as it may, with the expectation of complimentary hosts, you won’t. You’ll wind up looking for different website admins answers.

16. Trimmed Down Apache Server

Trimmed down apache servers will have constrained modules or a few modules would be impaired. What’s the major ordeal? You won’t have the capacity to introduce some top modules like W3 Total Cache where such modules are required.

17. Shrouded Costs

I hate Hidden expenses. They need to be authentic about their service. Free has, similar to the name says, are not allowed to the center. They may have concealed expenses, particularly when you cross the permitted free portion. They’ll additionally charge additional for other fundamental elements. Ordinarily you won’t be permitted to utilize fantisto, which is regularly used to introduce programming like WordPress. They’ll either restrict the use or expenses to utilize them.

18. Poor for Affiliate Marketing

Associate Marketing is one of the most ideal approaches to profit on the web. Utilizing a free web have and advancing other premium web hosts will influence your promoting.

19. You possess your own Blog, reconsider?

This could be the most exceedingly awful part, since you won’t not possess your online journal if is facilitated on a free space. Since they give you to free, which means they have the privilege to bring it down at whatever time they need.

Assume if your free host is sold to some other organization, then that could be the end of your online journal. Be the proprietor of your blog, as well as the domain.

20. Google Apps Integration

I got notification from numerous that free has won’t bolster Google Apps. You would prefer not to miss your magnificent name@yourdomain.com email address right? The default email records will likewise suck.

21. The last one: You can purchase one!

It couldn’t be any more obvious, hosting space is not excessive. You simply need to pick the privilege monetary one for your site. You can make utilization of “The shopping extravaganza following Thanksgiving” and “The Monday following Thanksgiving” offers for getting energizing offers. In the event that you don’t have the cash to purchase web hosting for a year, you can select month to month package.

22. Issue with Search Engine

So, on the off chance that you purchased some paid web hosting service, and then you can get some impression over web search engines. If the guests to your site, as well as the web search tool will likewise it won’t consider more about your website! So dependably attempt to get paid web hosting service which is considerably more superior to anything free hosting services on the web.

23. Lack in Customization

Better believe it, without a doubt there will be some confinement on your free hosting site supervisor. You can’t get to full elements and modify your site as you such as. Be that as it may, this all customization should be possible paid web hosting platforms. To put it plainly, your sites will be restricted with a few layouts the free hosting services site offers you. What’s more, you can’t ready to change its looks as you such as and including some intelligent modules is unrealistic! So ensure about it!

24. Free web hosting is problematic.

Free web hosting doesn’t have an amazing notoriety for rate, uptime, and accessibility. They additionally have a tendency to close down a ton. Free hosting is best suitable for the individuals who couldn’t care less if their site is exceptionally accessible. It will be okay for leisure activity platforms, for testing, however unquestionably not for business.