I recently learned that "The Unofficial CV80 Owner's Guide," my website about Yamaha's venerable scooter, has gone off the air. A few people have contacted me by email to ask what happened. Evidently my ISP has changed its agreement with Yahoo! and Geocities and, as a result, my site vanished suddenly, without notice (that I recall). I am scrambling to figure out what to do and whether I can use this blog as a replacement.
In fact, I've known for a while that I would have to do something. For years, the site was hosted on my personal space with my ISP. I updated it regularly, but then a few years ago I moved out of the city. I cancelled my internet service when I moved, but incredibly my site remained on the air. I just couldn't access it. I moved back to the city and signed up again with the same ISP, with the same username that should have entitled me to the same personal web space, and yet I still couldn't access my site. Meanwhile, it continued to do well in search results for those seeking information about their CV80s and I received a lot of email.
With the launch of my new scooter book, I planned to get in touch with the ISP to see what I could do with my original (and still popular) site. It has always received a lot of traffic. I wanted to add a notice about the book, which I expected would be of interest to CV80 owners in particular. Then, suddenly, it vanished.
I'll look at how best to migrate content to this space. Until then, hey, want to buy a book?
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