About - Reocities

Reocities

Free personal web hosting. No ads. No frameworks.

What is Reocities?

Reocities is a free web hosting platform built for people who want to put something on the internet without dealing with cloud dashboards, deployment pipelines, or monthly bills. You get a subdomain, a file manager, and a code editor. That's it.

Your site lives at yourname.reocities.xyz. You can upload HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, edit files directly in the browser, and your changes go live immediately. No build step, no cache to invalidate, no waiting.

The name is a nod to Geocities, the 1990s web host that gave millions of people their first homepage. Reocities does the same thing, without the broken GIF counters.

Features

File Manager

Upload files by clicking or dropping them. Create folders, rename files, delete things. Right-click any file for a context menu. Drag files from your desktop directly into the file list.

Code Editor

Edit HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, and Markdown files directly in the browser using a full syntax-highlighted editor with autocomplete. Ctrl+S to save.

Collaboration

Add collaborators to your site by email or username. Editors can upload files, create folders, and edit content. You stay the owner and can remove access at any time from the Configuration page.

Custom Domains

Point your own domain to Reocities. Contact support for setup instructions. Your site will be served at your custom domain with SSL.

Site Statistics

See visit counts, unique visitors, and where traffic is coming from by country. Stats update in real time as people visit your site.

Site Backups

Create snapshots of your site from the Configuration page. Free accounts get 3 backups. Premium accounts get 6. You can restore any backup at any time.

Password Protection

Lock your entire site or individual files with a password. Visitors will be prompted with an HTTP Basic Auth dialog before they can view the content.

API Access

Manage your site programmatically. Generate API keys from the dashboard and use them to upload files, read file contents, or check storage — from a script, a CI pipeline, or wherever.

Site Comments and Ratings

Visitors can leave comments on your site profile and rate it. You can see all comments and respond. Spam is automatically detected and filtered.

Plans

Feature Free Premium ($0.99/mo)
Storage 1 GB 5 GB
Custom domain No Yes
Site backups 3 6
Collaborators Yes Yes
API access Yes Yes
Background image No Yes
Premium badge on profile No Yes
Priority support No Yes

Premium is billed monthly, $0.99 per month. Cancel any time.

Getting Started

  1. Register at /register and pick a subdomain name. That becomes your site address.
  2. Go to the File Manager. Your site comes with a starter index.html. Edit it or replace it.
  3. Upload images, stylesheets, scripts, or any static files your site needs.
  4. Your site is live immediately at yourname.reocities.xyz.
  5. To add collaborators, go to Configuration and enter their email or username.
  6. To use a custom domain, add a CNAME record to www.reocities.xyz, then save the domain in Settings. Use ALIAS, ANAME, or CNAME flattening for root domains if your DNS provider supports it.

What You Can Host

Reocities serves static files. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, fonts, JSON data files, SVGs. Anything a browser can render, you can host here.

This works for personal pages, portfolios, project documentation, game pages, fan sites, art galleries, small tools built with vanilla JS — anything that doesn't need a server-side backend.

Server-side code (PHP, Python, etc.) is not executed. Files are served as-is. If you need server-side logic, you can call external APIs from your JavaScript.

API

Reocities has a REST API. Generate a key from your dashboard and include it in an X-API-Key header. You can list files, upload files, read file contents, and check storage usage.

Full documentation is available at /api/docs.

Rules

Reocities is a hosting platform, not a content moderation system, but there are some things that will get your site removed:

Everything else is generally fine. See the Terms of Service for specifics.