Angelfire

Infobox_Website
name = Angelfire
url = http://www.angelfire.com/


commercial = Yes
type = Free web hosting service
owner = Lycos

Angelfire is an Internet venture offering free space for web sites. In the past, it was long known for providing advertising-free hosting. (It also offered medical transcription services.Fact|date=September 2008) The site was bought by Mountain View, California-based WhoWhere, which was itself subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos. As Lycos already offered 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 increasing amount of ads but also by offering more disk space.

As of 2008, Angelfire continues to operate separately from Tripod and now includes features such as blog building and a photo gallery builder. It also supports, for paid members only, CGI scripts written in Perl. Until May 2004, Angelfire offered free email (as a cobrand of Mailcity) at the @angelfire.com domain, but this feature has been replaced by webmail for premium users only (through Lycos Domains).

Although the Angelfire and Tripod are very much separate sites, they do share much of the same underlying software, such as the blog application.

ee also

* Geocities
* Tripod.com

External links

* [http://www.angelfire.lycos.com Angelfire]