PSA: I almost lost my whole Geocities site because I didn't back up my guestbook

Back in '97, a friend in my webring told me my guestbook script was eating all my free hosting space and my site would get purged. I checked and he was right, the file was over 5MB from spam. I switched to a simple text counter and saved everything. Anyone else have a close call with early web hosting limits?

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evayoung2mo ago

My Angelfire page got nuked in 1999 over a 10MB limit. The culprit was a MIDI file of the X-Files theme song on auto-play. I learned the hard way that web hosts didn't mess around. I still miss that page.

faithk922mo ago

That X-Files MIDI was worth the nuke.