Angelfire
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 A screenshot of Angelfire | |
Type of site | Paid web hosting service |
|---|---|
| Owner | Lycos |
| URL | www.angelfire.lycos.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 1996 |
Angelfire is an Internet service that offers website services. It is owned by Lycos, which also owns Tripod.com. Angelfire operates separately from Tripod.com and includes features such as blog building and a photo gallery builder. Free webpages are no longer available to new registrants and have been replaced by paid services.
History[]
Angelfire was founded in 1996 and was originally a combination Web site building and medical transcription service.[1] Eventually the site dropped the transcription service and focused solely on Web site hosting, offering only paid memberships.[1] The site was bought by Mountain View, California–based WhoWhere in 1997, which, in turn, was subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos on August 11, 1998 for US$133 million.[2] Since Lycos already offered free website 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.
Until May 2004, Angelfire offered paid email (as a cobrand of Mailcity) at the @angelfire.com domain, but this feature has been replaced by webmail through Lycos Domains for premium users only.
Angelfire received a major redesign in September 2010. It was completely re-coded using HTML5 mark-up and now promotes the Angelfire site builder as its main Web publishing tool. The classic Web Shell tool is still active but is only available to members with paid plans.
In the late summer of 2021, Angelfire posted a notice on subscribers' Control Panel page saying "Upcoming Storage Migration - On August 11, 2021, we will be moving Angelfire's user data to a new storage system. During this time, the data will be accessible in read-only mode so member sites will still be available. However, any changes, such as file uploads or site publishes will not work. We expect this migration to take 10 days. " On September 3, 2021, subscriber access to edit their pages was restored after 21 days, not 10 days, though the announcement was still displayed on their Control Panel page.
See also[]
Internet portal
References[]
- ^ a b Angelfire: About Us
- ^ "Lycos buys WhoWhere?". CNN. 1998-08-11. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
External links[]
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