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Exciting new package changes!
Great news! We listened to your feedback, and we have made some significant changes to our domains and packages. We are introducing lower priced domains, a new Bronze package, and the ability to pay for hosting monthly instead of the whole year up-front.
Lower Priced Domains
Over the last year, we have introduced more than a dozen new custom domain types such as .us and .co. We have always included the price of hosting in our domain prices. This unfortunately meant that someone who purchased a second domain from us, in essence, paid for hosting twice and this model led to some confusion. So we decided to split our hosting costs from our domains.
This means when you purchase your first domain, you will need a hosting package to go with it. Then once you have a hosting package, you can purchase additional domains without paying for hosting twice. For our existing domain and Silver customers, we have already migrated you to a domain and hosting package. This means you will be able to start taking advantage of our lower priced domains immediately. We now offer .com domains at $11.95/year and have reduced the price of all our other domains as well. It is now more affordable to protect your business’s brand identity by securing additional domains like .net, .biz, or .co.
Yola Bronze has arrived
We are also introducing a new starter hosting package called Yola Bronze. In addition to the easy-to-use, powerful site building tools all our users get, Yola Bronze includes the following key features:
- Premium quality domain hosting
- External domain pointing to your Yola site
- Twice as much storage (2GB per site)
- Ability to create up to 5 unique sites
- $50 Google AdWords credit
- Premium Phone and Email Support for 30 days
We also modified our free offering for new users to align it with the new Yola Silver and Yola Bronze changes.
Pay Monthly
In order to provide you with even more flexibility, we are introducing monthly billing for new subscribers. This means that when you chose one of our hosting packages, you will now have the option of being billed monthly or annually. We will also still continue to offer our “2 months free” annual package for purchase at a discount.
For more information regarding our changes, please check out our Frequently Asked Questions.
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New Domain Pricing is Live
We have launched our new domain pricing and removed free domain pointing for external domains. You can no longer point a domain purchased from another provider to your Yola site free of charge. If you own a domain purchased from another provider you can transfer your domain to Yola or upgrade to Yola Silver in order to use it with your Yola built site.
Please Note: If you already own an external domain that is published to a Yola site this will not affect you as we have left our free service in tact for existing customers.
We believe this change is warranted as we have been working diligently on upgrading our hosting, security systems and features to protect your website from the threat of hackers and outages. As such, when you opt to have your domain managed with us you receive these additional safeguards:
- Upgraded, state-of-the-art website protection
- Premium quality hosting for round-the-clock care and fewer down times
- Advanced global DNS management to quickly allow you to make domain changes yourself
- Award-winning support team available 24/7
- Instant setup gets your website online in no time
If you have any questions regarding this release please feel free to contact support.
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Announcement Regarding Custom Domains
After February 15, 2011, we will be changing the price of custom domain registration and renewals to $34.95/year (less than $3/month). This change will only affect the following domains: .com, .net, .us, .ca, .de, .es, .nl, and .eu.
For the last few months, we’ve been upgrading our hosting, security systems and features to protect your website from the threat of hackers and outages so when you renew your domain with us you get a whole lot more:
- Upgraded, state-of-the-art website protection
- Premium quality hosting for round-the-clock care and fewer down times
- Advanced global DNS management to quickly allow you to make domain changes yourself
- Award-winning support team available 24/7
- Instant setup gets your website online in no time
For our Yola customers, we want to give you the opportunity to renew your domain now before the price increase. You can also save an additional 10% if you renew for 2 years or more – only $35.90 for 2 years ($1.50/month)
If you need more information on how to renew your domain you can visit our Community Support forum.
We’re constantly working toward helping your business be more successful and we’re here to answer any questions you may have.
Thank you for being part of the Yola family!
Vinny Lingham
CEO, Yola
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Save 20% this week on everything at Yola
The seasons are changing, and we’re pleased to announce a sitewide sale here at Yola. For one week only, everything is 20% off. That’s right, everything.
This includes our popular Custom Domain Names (get a .com, .org, or even the new local domains, co.uk, ca and .eu), a Yola Pro account upgrade, Premium Styles and Yola Link Removal.
So if you want your site to stand up and get noticed, now’s the time to stock up – there’s no limit to how much you can buy of domains or styles. As a matter of fact, you’ll save even more if you buy a multi-year domain plan – for a 5-year domain, you’ll save 36%. Even if your domain isn’t expiring for a little while, renew now to take advantage of the savings.
So choose one of the links above, or shop while on Yola and use promo code YolaSave. This offer ends Tue, Mar 30, 2010.
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Email address for your Custom Domain
We’re pleased to announce new features based on your feedback and interests – now you can set up personalized email addresses and easily manage multiple domain names – all at no extra cost.
Yes, your very own email address
When you buy a domain name from Yola, or if you already own one from us, you can get matching email addresses for free. It’s ideal for building name recognition for your website.
Your personalized email address works with either Google Apps Gmail or Windows Live Hotmail, so you can choose the service that best suits your needs. When setting up your email, you’ll find it’s handy to print out the tutorial. Get started by downloading, Creating email addresses with your domain purchased from Yola.
Advanced Domain Settings
If you own multiple Custom Domain Names, or want to transfer a Custom Domain Name from one site is to another, you can do it with the Advanced Domain Settings Manager. Find out about it with DNS for your Yola domain
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Yolasite subdomains are now available
We’re excited to introduce the availability of yolasite subdomains. Now, when you publish a new site with a subdomain, it will contain yolasite (for example, mysitename.yolasite.com) instead of SynthaSite (mysitename.synthasite.com).
If you currently use a SynthaSite subdomain, now you can choose whether or not to switch to Yolasite.com.
Go ahead, keep synthasite.com
You can keep your site on synthasite.com as long as you want. You do not need to change to yolasite.com. You may want to stay put, if:
• You have a large user base who knows your web address
• Your site ranks well on search engines
• There’s printed materials with your web address
Or change to yolasite.com
Yolasite is a bit shorter and easier to spell than our former name. To switch to a yolasite subdomain, you need to log on to Yola and:
Go to the MySites Page
Fill in a site name and click the Change Now button.
Go to the Sitebuilder
Near the top of the page, click the arrow next to Update My Sites and select Publishing Settings
More about changing subdomains
• You can use your existing site name with yolasite.com. We’ll hold it until May 31.
• You can also get a different site name with yolasite.com – they’ll be available on a first come, first serve basis.
• Any traffic going to your old synthasite.com web address will be redirected to your new yolasite.com web address – which means returning visitors can still find your site. Your new yolasite.com address will appear in the address bar.
• Whenever you change subdomains, all content on your site always stays the same.
• You will need to update your settings with your new web address for domain-specific tools, like Google Webmaster Tools or Google Analytics,.
Find out more
More details are available at the SynthaSite is now Yola FAQ update.
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Now more choices with domain names
Many of you have told us you’re interested in making it easier for visitors to find your site, and that you’d like your site to feel professional. You can achieve both of these goals with your personal web address, also known as a custom domain.
I’m excited to let you know that we’ve expanded our domains product offering so you can more easily find a name for your site, get names with extensions other than .com, and secure your website address for years to come.
- Find a website name: Sometimes the first name that comes to mind isn’t available. To make it easier to come up with another one you like, we’ll show you a list of available options.
- End with more than .com: You can now register domains with .net, .org, .biz, and, of course, .com extensions. And we’ll automatically configure the domains for you.
- Get multiple domains: You can assign more than one domain name to your site, which will all redirect users to your primary site. This can also help visitors find you and improve search engine ranking.
- Lock in your domains: To ensure you keep your web site name for years to come, you can register your domain for up to 10 years. By doing so, you’ll save up to 20% and save yourself the hassle of renewing every year.
- Keep your registration private: When you own a domain name, your contact details are publicly disclosed via the WHOIS database, which can result in unwanted emails. With private registration, we place alternate information in the public database — so only relevant messages are forwarded and your junk email is reduced.
To take advantage of these new options, select “Buy my own domain name” when you first publish your site or “Upgrade to your own domain” when you update your existing site.
Enjoy!
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