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Furtopia is a grassroots furry community website that has provided webspace to artists, writers and musicians at no charge since 2001 under the domain names furtopia.org, dragoncity.net, and most recently introducing Artistsworld.com as a non-furry art gallery. The site is currently run by Gene Angel (WhiteShepherd) and Kaycy Ruffer (Kada-Ru), although several other staff members and moderators also play a prominent role in the upkeep of the site.

Furtopia also has their own radio station called Radio Furtopia, which currently broadcasts radio shows hosted by furry DJs approximately twelve hours a day, seven days a week. A thriving set of message boards also exists, as well as FurJournal, an online MUCKing client, and a fully functional IRC network.

Furtopia is unusual amongst free hosts in that it offers Server Side Includes, PHP, and MySQL support, which the majority of free servers do not.

Charity Work

Furtopia is also recognized for its charity work — its parent organization, Two Trees Inc., is registered as a 501(c)3 charity and has made notable donations in computers and art to the underprivileged, most recently through its Arts For Kids program.

On September 1, 2005, as reported on the dutchfurs.com newsfeed, Furtopia also announced they would be helping furries affected by Hurricane Katrina by accepting donations of money, clothing, or shelter. All proceeds were to go towards furries in need. Over $750 was donated by the Furtopia forums, most of which went to purchasing clothes for furries affected by the tragedy.

Staff Members

As of May 2006, the following indviduals serve in an amplified role on Furtopia's website and/or forums:

History

On March 21, 2002, Furtopia went live! The VERY first Furtopia ran on a Cyrix 133 using OS/2 and Xitami running on a 768 kbit/s SDSL line (at a operation cost of about $300/month). The original forums were simple, inadequate scripts in great need of being replaced. It was at this point at which Benjamin entered...

After some discussions between WhiteShepherd and Benjamin, the furtopia.org forums were initially set up on November 25, 2002. The design that Benjamin had done for the forums was so popular that it was later adopted for the main site's design and even onto the t-shirts used for fundraising for the site. The server was later upgraded to a K6/2 550 MHz (with the Cyrix becoming a backup server), and this was in turn upgraded to an Athlon 2400 running on a pair of 768 kbit/s DSL lines.

Eventually, the server became collocated to where it currently resides in Texas at ThePlanet data center.

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