WHO is FreeWebTown Community?
We're a group of experienced Internet professionals who've been working together as a team (off and on) since 1995. Our parent company, Tulip Systems, Inc., offers International shared hosting solutions as well as dedicated and customized web hosting solutions.

WHAT is FreeWebTown Community? (or what is the "purpose" of FreeWebTown?)
Our purpose, simply put, is all about encouraging, enabling, and simplifying new website creation on the Internet. We provide free hosting for some of the Internet's most interesting, true-to-life, honest, entertaining and engaging websites online today. Our users have free reign to create whatever they wish (so long as they comply with our AUP).

WHEN did FreeWebTown Community become started?
Our origins go all the way back to 1997, when we developed a unique mass website hosting system design and infrastructure for a client of ours. This concept (slightly modified) eventually became what FreeWebTown is today. The site has been around since 2002, when we began beta testing with live users, then in August of 2004 we went "officially live" with about 9,000 signed up users. Since then we have adapted to necessary changes, and as a result, we currently host over 300,000 signed up users and continue to grow very rapidly.

WHERE is FreeWebTown Community located? Where is the central focus of the Community?
We are physically located in class-A office space in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Our office facility boasts its own secured, raised-floor data center, that we fully manage and maintain. Our focus is the entire world, at least those who are online. We hope to gain more and more exposure into all parts of the world.

WHY does FreeWebTown Community offer free hosting with no advertising?
For three (3) main reasons:

1. Empower the masses; we wanted anyone online to be able to afford a website without forced advertising, gimmicks or misleading schemes.
2. Cutting-edge technology; we wanted to see how our custom-developed solution holds up when faced with: massive amounts of traffic, tens of thousands of new users, exponential resource constraints, and other real-life issues while testing on a massive scalable production web hosting environment.
3. Cover our costs (or more); currently, the advertising we display doesn't even come close to us covering our day-to-day expenses.

HOW do you keep FreeWebTown Community online? How are you able to cover your expenses?
We're constantly looking for new ways to generate revenue while keeping with the essential theme of offering free web hosting services with no forced ads, but it is a significant challenge. Our bandwidth and other data center-related expenses easily amount to $15,000.00 to $20,000.00 every single month. While we don't yet expect to make any profits from FreeWebTown Community, we would eventually hope to at least cover all related expenses. As an existing business we have an infrastructure that makes all this possible with the means to sustain our growth and expenses for the forseeable future. We try to focus "pay-as-you-go" features (like "bandwidth overages") on those things that cost the most to maintain. We feel it's fair to expect those who use the most resources to have to pay to keep them going. In the general scheme of things, we expect that the overwhelming majority of our users won't ever need to pay for any of our services.

Do you agree with what we're doing? If yes, then please help us:
We're asking you to help us out with one of the following:

• PayPal purchases - please purchase or donate additional bandwidth to your favorite website;
• Advertise with us - our site reaches many millions of users every month;
• Donations - you can donate directly to us in the interests of keeping free hosting available for everyone; (button coming soon)
• Promoting us - tell others about us through your website by linking to us or word-of-mouth (tell your friends and associates).

For those interested in sending non-electronic (ie. "snail" mail or postal) donations for keeping FreeWebTown online and free to the world, make checks payable to, "Tulip Systems, Inc." and send to: 
Tulip Systems, Inc., 55 Marietta Street Suite 1740 Atlanta, GA 30303 

Interested in the technology and software solution behind FreeWebTown Community?
Please visit Tulix Systems, for information about "Community".