Serebii.net

Serebii.net or SPP

Brief Description

(Serebii's Pokémon Page/Place) is a fan site created by Serebii in the fall of 1999 when many Pokémon sites were starting to appear, seemingly out of nowhere. The site first gained popularity as a GeoCities site, where it was also a member of the Articuno Island network.

It is a well known source for Anime, Nintendo gaming and TCG information. The site currently is one of the most up-to-date Pokémon websites on the Internet, updated almost on a daily basis.

Serebii.net has occasionally been the center of controversy, as its webmaster has faced accusations of theft in the past. Serebii, the owner, claims that he personally has stolen nothing since mid-2002. Since mid-2002, there has been one case of material appearing on Serebii's site that had been created by another fansite; however, this resulted from the work of unscrupulous fans stealing the material from the original site and passing them along to Serebii, without informing him of the source. Although he has shown reluctance to remove such material at times, Serebii eventually accepts to do so in the vast majority of cases.

With that problem aside, Serebii.net is a site used across the globe by 10s of thousands of different people each day and linked across the web by trainers who both request and require help on the variety of subjects of Pokémon.

It also had a close affiliation with the short lived Pokémon Official Magazine in the UK.

Problems Afoot

However Serebii.net has not been without it's own problems. Up until March 2003, it's uptime was sporadic at best, with it having gaps of up to 6 months of downtime caused by Serebii.net being too big for free servers. Due to this, Serebii was introduced to Craig Maloof who paid for the server. Since then Craig has been the server host while the site pays for itself via the single Ad Banner on every page

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