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AOL Announces End of Web hosting for Members' Websites

On Friday, October 31st, AOL will discontinue web hosting support for members using its Hometown service. This means that your website will no longer be accessible by other members, or by people surfing the world wide web. In essence, AOL is "turning off" AOL Hometown.

What does this mean?

Basically your website hosted on AOL will no longer be viewable by members or web surfers. If you blog, post pictures, or have a website for your business, it will be "gone."

There is much confusion about this move, even though AOL announced its plans to discontinue this service several months ago. To clarify one issue, AOL e-mail services are not effected. So, while your website will be gone, you will still be able to send and receive AOL e-mail as usual.

How can we help you?

SOHO Business Enterprises' SOHOSites can help you copy your website. If you don't have a back-up of your website, you would need to redo it. Copying your website can save you time, and in the case of a business, money. Remember, unless there is a change, you only have until October 31st to do this.

We can help you find a place to host your website. There are many outfits which host small websites. We can make suggestions based on your needs, and even get you started by helping you to publish up your webpages.

We can even host your website. SOHOSites' focus is the small business, and we can host, publish, maintain and develop your website. We do the work that you would do if you had the skills—and the time!

Contact us as soon as possible. Whichever way you choose to communicate, be sure to state that you are an AOL Hometown user, so that we can escalate your issue and get back to you right away.