Extra.hu
Extra.hu | |
URL | http://extra.hu[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
Status | Offline |
Archiving status | Lost |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
extra.hu was one of the first[1] free Hungarian webhosting services, and, until its closure, also one of the most significant ones in Hungary.
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Shutdown
In January 2010, DotRoll announced[2] that they discontinue their free hosting service on 2010-03-31, and offer only paid service. However, those who already had an account, could subscribe for a discount plan; and users could also choose to keep just the domain, for an even smaller sum. In their accompanying press release,[3] DotRoll admitted that since they took the service in September 2008, they used it as a test platform of the services they wanted to build into their paid plans. "Whenever we wanted to test a feature under heavy load, we put that on Extra." They also wrote: "Sometimes other development companies also got us to do a stress test. In such cases we invisibly embedded the page to be tested into the users' service panel."
- "Extra.hu is a piece of Hungarian web history. During its heyday before suspending the subscription, it was actively used by hundreds of thousand websites, and was visited by more than 300,000 people daily."[3]
With the transition, unkown number of websites were lost, however, it seems that also a lot of people chose to pay and keep the domain. Many ones migrated to other free hosting providers.
For the domains of those who didn't buy the domain until the closure date, from May an auction started, and lasted for months, offering a few domains at a time.[4] (The websites were not available any more that time.)
Servers of extra.hu "ceased" in fall 2010.[5]
Today, DotRoll includes an extra.hu subdomain in its plans.[6] extra.hu itself redirects to docler.com.
References
- ↑ nexus.hu started at about the same time
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20100128101316/http://atalakul.az.extra.hu/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://web.archive.org/web/20100128101343/http://atalakul.az.extra.hu/sajtokozlemeny
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20100815024714/https://aukcio.dotroll.com/
- ↑ http://weblabor.hu/cikkek/hogyan-mukodott-az-extra
- ↑ https://en.dotroll.com/services/hosting/mini
Further reading (in Hungarian)