Our mission: to make the web fun again, by giving you back control of how you express yourself online.
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Our mission: To make the web fun again by giving you back control of how you express yourself online.
+Zero advertising
-Neocities will never sell your personal data or embed advertising on your site. Instead, we are supporter and donation driven.
+Neocities will never sell your personal data or embed advertising on your site. Instead, we are funded directly by our community through supporter plans and donations. This allows us to base all our decisions on making the best possible web building experience for you, rather than on appeasing ad companies.
More space, speed, and security
-Neocities now uses distributed, globally-cached web servers in datacenters all over the world to serve your site. Whether it’s your personal home page, or a busy professional site, your site loads fast. And if you need more space, we've got you covered. We also provide Snowden-grade SSL cryptography on all sites, preventing snoops from seeing what you browse.
+Neocities now uses distributed, globally-cached web servers in datacenters all over the world to serve your site. Whether it’s your personal home page or a busy professional site, your site loads fast. And if you need more space, we've got you covered. We also provide Snowden-grade SSL cryptography on all sites, preventing snoops from seeing what you browse.
Developer tools
-We have an in-browser HTML editor, file uploading, mounting your site to your computer (just like Dropbox), powerful APIs for building developer applications, and much more!
+We have an in-browser HTML editor, easy file uploading, WebDAV publishing, support for custom domains, RSS feeds for every site, powerful APIs for building developer applications, and much more!
Open Company
-Neocities is a member of the Open Company Initative, working to help improve trustability in tech companies. We publish the code that powers the site for inspection, and strive for openness in our company's operations. We want to win your trust - not lock you in.
+Neocities is a member of the Open Company Initative, working to help improve trustability in tech companies. We publish the code that powers the site for inspection, and strive for openness in our company's operations. We want to win your trust—not lock you in.
Support Us
- Neocities is funded exclusively by supporters and donations. If you’d like to contribute, you can help us - pay our server costs using CC, Bitcoin, or PayPal. + Neocities is funded by supporters and donations. If you’d like to contribute, you can help us pay our server costs using credit card, Bitcoin, or PayPal.
Donate TodayWhy are there restricted file types?
At the moment, Neocities is trying to grow sustainably. Our goal is to provide you with a free web site so you can arrange content in any way you want. In order to make sure we can continue to do this, we need to put in place measures to prevent Neocities from becoming a "file dump host". We don't currently have the resources to deal with preventing this from happening if we let users upload anything they want, so the temporary solution for now is to only allow file types that we know are useful for making web sites. - +
For example, allowing users to host executable (EXE) files provides a way for attackers to host malicious content, and we want to minimize that. Also, if the site starts being used to host malicious content, it is possible that search engines like Google will punish us in rankings, or that our datacenter operators would tell us we can't do business with them, which would affect everyone's site on Neocities.
MP3 music and MP4 video has similar problems, because if the uploaded content became very popular ("goes viral"), it would overwhelm our servers and make our bandwidth much more costly. And hosting rich-media content directly is almost never the best way to do it. Soundcloud provides a great way to host music, and Youtube does a very good job with taking your video, processing it, making sure it works on all browsers, and then provides an easy way for you to embed that content in your web page.
- +If you have a file type you believe should be allowed, please contact us and we will see if we can put it in for you.
- +We are working on upgrading our infrastructure to deal with these problems more effectively (such as automatic virus scanning for executables, and using globally-distributed site caching to improve performance for sites and increase our bandwidth capabilities). Until then, we have a whitelist of allowed file types, but we will let you know if this changes in the future (and we expect it to). Thank you for your understanding and patience.
@@ -42,4 +42,4 @@Keep in mind that it's still better to host things like videos on Youtube. They've spent a lot of time and invested a lot of money into building a platform for sharing high-bandwidth video very efficiently all over the world, which is not something we have the capital to perfect. And they don't charge you for bandwith, even if your video becomes very popular (infact, you can make money by sharing their advertising revenue with them).
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