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Webs (Formerly Freewebs)

Type	Web hosting
Founded	2001
Founder	Mokhtarzada brothers
Headquarters	Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Employees	14
Website	Webs.com
Available in	English

Webs, formerly Freewebs, is a free website hosting service founded in 2001.

[edit] History

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Webs began in 2001 as Freewebs, just after the dot-com bubble, as a start-up launched by Haroon^[1] and Zeki Mokhtarzada after their last year at the University of Maryland, College Park.^[2] Their goal was to make the Internet accessible to anyone and to protect user's rights to free speech.^[3] As of April 2007, the site recorded 18 million unique visitors a month.^[2] Webs sites can include blogs, forums, wikis, 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.

On November 14, 2008, Freewebs changed their name to Webs, but users' URLs remained in the freewebs.com domain unless they chose to change over. On November 10, 2009, they experienced a problem where the cable to their data center was cut, resulting in all websites hosted by Webs becoming inaccessible. The problem was fixed overnight.

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[edit] External links

• Official website