About AwardSpace
The free web hosting pioneer.
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This is What We Stand For
We’ve started AwardSpace in the year 2003. Although back than there were free services, none of them was anything like what AwardSpace was and still is.
No one was offering a really free hosting service that gives you – the customer – the freedom to create whatever and whenever you might want to.
Since the 2003 AwardSpace is trying to achieve one thing, and one thing only. To give everyone the opportunity to create a website, and to be online.
We believe that everyone has the right to get their voice heard, and their opinion taken into account.
Everyone’s idea deserves the fair estimation of people all around the world. And if your website gets the attention you are hoping for, more power to you.
This is what we stand for.
This is what AwardSpace is.
This is where ideas turn into websites.
20
Years in business
2003
Founded
5 Million +
Satisfied Customers
Data Center
Data Center.
FACILITY TECHNICAL PARAMETERS
ISO:9001 Quality Management System
ISO:27001 Information Security System certified.
Redundant fiber optic connections with diverse physical paths
Diverse cable entries and Meet Me Rooms (MMRs)
Independent and alternative telecom and fiber providers
A, B, C and D Diesel Generator Groups
VESDA – Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus
FM200 – fire extinguishing agent
Redundant support systems
Leak Detection System
Redundant (N+1) Air Conditioning System with hot-and-cold row configuration
Completely independent (N+1) A, B, C, D, E and F UPS 220V AC power feeds
Completely independent (N+1) A, B, C, D, E and F 48V DC with starting configuration of 600Amps for each
24x7x365 on-site MSC, customer access, video surveillance CCTV, Hands and Eyes Services, physical security
Top-of-the-Line Server Hardware
Our server’s parameters are as follows, CPU Processors: Intel® Xeon® @ 2400 MHz, RAM memory: 8-64 GB, Operation System: Debian Linux. All of our servers are clustered using unified, distributed storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability and scalability to balance and withstand enormous loads.
24/7 Data Center Monitoring
Highly qualified professional technicians are monitoring the hosting platform’s performance around the clock. They handle the full spectrum of problems as they occur and act in the most efficient way possible to minimize downtime or service failures.
Clustered Hosting Platform
Our clustered hosting platform combines the extensive experience gained throughout the years by the mother companies that have established AWARDSPACE.COM. The second-tier hosting engine was based on past know-how and additional improvements were introduced to achieve unparalleled performance. We rely on spreading the load through distributed storage system designed for excellent performance and scalability on different machines and thus ensure a smooth-running service.
Strategic Location of Data Center
Our Data Center is located in Sofia, Bulgaria, Europe. The country resides in southeastern Europe and is notable for being ranked in the top 20 states with the fastest Internet speed in the world. Average connection speed peaks at 50 Mbit/s surpassing tech-savvy countries such as the US and UK. The data center is Telepoint and is Tier 3+ Carrier Neutral Data Center allowing us to optimize our colocation costs and provide free and premium hosting at a fraction of the price compared to other providers.
The Whole Story Began In 2003
The idea of offering free LAMP hosting (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) started back in 2003. The opportunity was seized by the Awardspace CEO, who was by that time running one of the first pure HTML free web hosting companies. Free HTML hosting companies were just a few (this was the so-called web 1.0 era, for hosting static websites, where content creators were little and most of the users were acting as consumers).
While HTML hosting (web 1.0) was really booming the new trend in hosting was dynamic HTML that had the ability to change its content by users interacting and collaborating with each other and in that way participating and communicating in a virtual community on a specific website i.e. forum websites.
Awardspace.Com Was Born – Free LAMP Hosting
AWARDSPACE.COM was launched providing free LAMP hosting without banner ads injection on users’ pages. The demand for such service was immense and it became byword for providing free php and MySQL hosting with no banners and no expiration date. The company was founded by pooling together the extensive expertise and knowledge of its two mother companies Zetta Hosting Solutions ltd. and AttractSoft GmbH. Zetta Hosting Solutions ltd. is a company founded in 2002 as a hosting development company providing Free HTML Hosting and AttractSoft GmbH is a Germany-based company that has become a leader in the field of software development and software outsourcing.
Premium Web Hosting Services
Being in the position of one of the top 10 free web hosting providers in the world is wonderful and at the same time a great commitment to our users and their needs. Free web hosting was a fabulous opportunity for everybody to start their online presence, however was insufficient for the ones that had become webmasters or had e-commerce websites with hundreds of thousands of visitors. In 2005 we launched our first premium service, which was a premium shared hosting service – featuring 3 web hosting plans for the increasing needs of our free users.
Apart from the news for premium service being a fact, what most pleased our users was the seamless and automatic account upgrade process from a free hosting account to a premium hosting account and server, without a manual migration process and no downtime whatsoever.
Free Reseller Hosting Services
It was only logical that we would like to launch a reseller hosting service only if it is free for our resellers and on their side, they could deliver free web hosting services to their clients. The idea was that everybody who wanted to become a reseller could create their own free web hosting service like Awardspace.com and this is how the concept for ResellerCluster was born.
ResellerCluster.Com Was Born – Free Reseller Hosting Program
ResellerCluster became a pioneer in the field of offering the opportunity for resellers to capture the value of providing free web hosting – a great marketing model that was later on coined as the freemium model of marketing. Take a moment to visit our free reseller hosting website to learn more.
Zacky Tools – Automated Script Installer
The Zacky App Installer in its full version is available only to premium customers and offers only Joomla and WordPress automatic installations to the free hosting users.
VPS Hosting Launch
Semi-Dedicated Hosting Launch
Control Panel New Version
Free Hosting Improved Parameters
In all our efforts in the past 10 years we’ve been committed to encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit in people, both in our employees and our clients. While our free hosting helped over one million people around the world to start their online presence with no investment, as of today we are aware, our free hosting plan was somewhat limiting for people who wanted to play around and experiment before committing to a premium service.
In an effort to remove that obstacle, we increased the disk space with 400% and the allowed file size with 700%, so everyone can create a functioning website, for free.
New Website Design And Purposive Services
Looking for a risk-free start?
Look no further. As a free web hosting pioneer, AwardSpace provides a completely risk-free environment for you to create your first website.
No credit card is needed. You just register and enjoy our entirely free web hosting with no ads, and 99.9% uptime guarantee.
What are you waiting for? Let's get you started!
Become Part of Our Worldwide Family
With the years passing by, ResellerCluster has grown significantly from a startup to an established international company. Yet, we remain committed to our promises and fundamental values that made us who we are today.
That’s why people from all over the world trust us and have created their white-label hosting companies through our all-in-one solution.
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