Webs (web hosting)
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| Type | Web hosting |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | 1100 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 |
| Services | Web Hosting (Free & Premium Services) |
| Employees | 40 |
| Website | www.webs.com |
| Alexa rank |  404 (December 2011[update])[1] |
| Type of site | Web Hosting/Web Design |
| Available in | English |
| Launched | 2001 |
| Current status | Live |
Webs, formerly Freewebs, is a free website hosting service founded in 2001. The service allows users to build and manage their own "professional quality" sites. Users can use applications, normal pages, and many other features to enhance the quality of their website. A user can also choose to buy a premium service
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[edit] History
Webs began in 2001 as Freewebs just after the dot-com bubble. It was a start-up launched by brothers Haroon and Zeki Mokhtarzada after their last year at the University of Maryland, College Park.[2][3] Their goal was to make the Internet accessible to anyone and to protect users' rights to free speech.[4] As of April 2007, the site recorded 18 million unique visitors a month.[3] Webs sites can include blogs, forums, wiki, calendars, guestbooks, webstore, photo gallery, links, web forms, widgets, games, puzzles, videos, and designer templates. The site includes paid features such as removal of on-site advertisements as well as the inclusion of other features.
[edit] Usage
On November 14, 2008, Freewebs changed its name to Webs, but users' URLs remained in the freewebs.com domain unless they chose to change over. Years after the name change from Freewebs to Webs, new users automatically have the domain webs.com. The domainname.webs.com is the domain for every site unless the user chooses to pay money and buy their own domain for use on Webs. Webs offers two types of web hosting, one for experienced website makers and one for first time / less experienced site builders. Less experienced users can choose from a variety of "widgets" and premade site layouts. More experienced users can choose the HTML way and avoid Webs' ads that come with premade layouts which will, in turn, appear at the bottom rather than in the middle. It is important to note that once a user has signed up for/switched over to an HTML account, he/she cannot revert to the 'site builder' web hosting option.Webs only offers FTP access to paying subscribers who do not use the site builder. currently the most popular type of URL webs.com users use is: instead of their normal link eg: instead of "www.website.com" it would be "www.website.webs.com"A close competitor for webs.com is wix.com.In webs.com you usually have to verify your e-mail, to confirm it's yours.
[edit] Pricing
Hosting is free upon signing up, but the free version has limited features and requires that banner ads be placed on websites. There are three other payment options, or "upgrades": Starter, Enhanced, and Pro. The more expensive the upgrade, the more storage space, bandwidth, additional email addresses, and web forms are allowed.A free member would receive 100MB worth of bandwidth, whereas as a paid member would receive much more!
[edit] File Manager
The Webs File Manager is designed so one can store webpages which are hidden when one opens the file manager and other files for a user's site like a sitemap, photos, videos, music, software, games, etc. For the first 7 days that a user's website exists the user will be on provisional mode where he/she can't upload certain types of files to the file manager such as .exe, .msi (software), .zip, or .rar (WinZip files). But after those 7 days one will be able to upload those file types to the file manager for one's Webs.com website. Once a user has reached their web storage limit, their only way to gain more is to use money or credits to buy it. The current web storage limit is 41.9Mb, a paid member would again receive a lot more.
[edit] References
- ^ "Webs.com Site Info". Alexa. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/webs.com#. Retrieved December 30, 2011
- ^ "CEO Haroon Mokhtarzada Interview". Social Networking Watch. April 3, 2009. http://www.socialnetworkingwatch.com/2009/04/haroon-mokhtarzada-ceo-of-webscom.html.
- ^ a b Hart, Kim (April 9, 2007). "Venture Capital Drawn to Freewebs". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800909.html. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
- ^ Sandoval, Greg (April 26, 2007). "The free-speech fundamentals of Freewebs". CNET News. http://www.news.com/The-free-speech-fundamentals-of-Freewebs/2100-1030_3-6179465.html. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
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