Whois & Analysis for angelfire.com

Angelfire is an Internet service that offers paid space for Web sites.

It was founded in 1996 and was originally a combination Web site building and medical transcription service.

Eventually the site dropped the transcription service and focused solely on Web site hosting, offering only paid memberships.

The site was bought by Mountain View, California–based WhoWhere in 1997, which, in turn, was subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos in 1998.

As Lycos already offered free Web page hosting with advertising through its acquisition of Tripod.com, Angelfire's offering was modified to also have parity with Tripod, including the addition of an increased amount of advertising, but also by offering more disk space.

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Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, and social network services.

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These CMS can be made from scratch, proprietary or open source.

In broad terms the CMS acts as middleware between the database and the user through the browser.

A principle benefit of a CMS is that it allows non-technical people to make changes to their web site without having technical knowledge.

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In general, technical support services address specific problems with a product or service rather than the provision of training, customization, or other support services.

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Free software is a matter of liberty, not price: users, individually or collectively, are free to do what they want with it, including the freedom to redistribute the software free of charge, or to sell it, or charge for related services such as support or warranty for profit.