Neocities
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NeoCities is a free website hosting silo in the spirit of defunct silo GeoCities (Yahoo shutdown in 2009) that looks like a stepping stone to getting started on the IndieWeb.
From their home page:
Create your own free website. You get 10 MB of space to make whatever you’d like with HTML, CSS, JS, IMG, TXT, and MD files.
The free tier includes 1GB of storage as of 2017-03-26. [1]
IndieWeb Examples
GHOST PARTY 👻🎉
Marty McGuire runs a website for improv project GHOST PARTY 👻🎉 at https://ghostparty.today/
- pays to use a custom domain at the supporter tier
- uses an extremely simple Micropub endpoint hosted on Glitch to add new posts.
- uses a template to render the Micropub properties into a chunk of HTML with microformats2 markup.
- fetches existing index.html and inserts the new content inside of the h-feed.
- uses the Neocities API to upload the new index.html file.
- also uses the Neocities API to transfer any Micropub file uploads to Neocities. Could be adapted to be a micropub media endpoint.
- uses OwnYourGram to PESOS photo posts. (example from 2018-03-16)
- event posts for shows are created by hand. (example)
LuLinks
Created and maintained by KMF as a directory for the Lu & the Bally Bunch fandom. Located at https://kmfstudiosarchives.neocities.org/latbb
- Uses GeoCities inspired aesthetics (webring, 88x31 button, guestbook, hit counter, "This page hosted by..." boilerplate)
- toki pona!
- Uses some external services (StrawPoll for polls, Bravenet for guestbook, WebsiteOut for hitcounter, webri(.)ng for webring)
Features
As of 2022-03-29 [2]
- No advertising
- Free tier
- 1 GB storage
- 200 GB bandwidth
- neocities.org subdomain
- Supporter tier
- 50 GB storage
- 3000 GB bandwidth
- Custom domain support
- REST api
- Default HTTPS using Let's Encrypt
...
Resources
- Mastodon-to-Neocities tool created by tsxyz. Workaround for Neocities free tier's CSP restriction. This tool automates download and upload of your Mastodon feed to Neocities.
- Neocities Webmentions Guide is a guide to setting up webmentions
- IndieAuth and Webmentions on Neocities is another guide to webmentions and IndieAuth
Articles
- 2025-11-05 : The indie web is here to make the internet weird again
- 2022-04-20 : Neocities celebrates ‘the old internet,’ offering relief from 24/7 social feeds
- 2013-07-15 NeoCities launches to widen website creation
- 2013-06-28 Making the web fun again
- Indicates ~2013-06-21 launch:
After just one week of NeoCities, there are already over 1,600 sites
- Indicates ~2013-06-21 launch:
Outage
On June 5, 2026, NameCheap temporarily took the Neocities.org domain offline. According to a statement from Neocities, the domain was suspended in response to an unrelated court order about a different domain. The Neocities.org domain was restored some hours later that day.
Blocked by Bing (2026)
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- 2026-01-27 Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
- blog post claims 1.5 million sites on Neocities
- see also search, robots.txt
- DuckDuckGo, which relies on Bing, has announced an update in response