Geocities -- Finally biting the dust?

I've had Geocities accounts for a long, long time. Last time I logged
in I got server errors galore. They also rarely seem to serve ads on
pages (I guess they serve ads to you while editing, but I haven't
clicked on one of those in HOW many years?) and instead sites go down
at the slightest uptick of traffic. (Or, heaven forbid, someone looses
a sitegrabber on you--why doesn't Yahoo maintain ITS OWN servers and
run scripts to ban abusive users, just like that?)

I've used lycos/tripod and the editor's interface was dreadful, much
worse than Yahoo. Other freehosts have been much the same. Also, many
of them have simply gone the way of all sites.

I wonder. How long before Yahoo just pulls the plug on freehosting? I
would pay for a "plus" account but they want $10/mo for more features
than I need, rather than what I would pay, $10/year, banners okay but
no pops and no going down due to bandwidth. Is that really too much to
ask?

Obviously I've started going into paid hosting for newer sites, but
some of my older, established sites (public service sites--these were
never commercial) are still on Geocities, for which I still have the
remnants of a soft spot. Should I stay or should I go? (Last time I
hastily moved stuff off Yahoo (when they came out with a new TOS) I
lost a bunch of files, so I'm wary of doing so again.)

-Hypatia