This may be one of our most-requested upgrades! The Complete Email account that comes free with every domain (or can be purchased for $9.99/yr) has been upgraded from 25mb of storage space to 100mb of storage space. Upgrades (for current customers) will take place over the next several weeks. New customers will see the extra space immediately.

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posted by PastorJon @ 9:20 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

YourChurchWeb.net is pleased to announce that you now get more free with every domain purchase (or renewal)! Read this article to learn how you might benefit from these changes:

1. For the past two years, customers have received a free, 25mb "Complete Email" with every domain. We've quadrupled the size of this account--and you can now store 100mb of email online. This is a $9.99 value.
   


2. 100-pack email forwarding - Add flexibility to your email management using forwards. Church leaders can have mail forwarded to them from an "official" address, small groups can be contacted with a single email address, and more. A $21.40 value.
   


3. Domain masking and forwarding - Are you hosting your site elsewhere? If you're using a free webhost that gives you a complex URL that's hard to remember, you can forward your domain to point to your website, and mask it so that your visitors never see the underlying URL.
   


4. Domain services - You have total DNS control, ability to change registrant information, the flexibility to set your domain for automatic or manual renewal, and the security of being able to lock your domain from being transferred.

The following products are fully featured versions of the products you can purchase. In exchange for the free product, an advertisement for YourChurchWeb.net will appear on every page. While most churches would prefer the cleaner look with no advertisement, this is a way we can assist churches with limited resources. For less than $10/yr, a church can have a domain, email, webhosting, photo storage, and more.

1. Free Online Photo Filer - Store, sort, share, publish, and print your favorite photos, right from your own personalized domain. This free version provides you with 1GB of storage space and 25GB of monthly data transfer. A $9.99 value.
   


2. Free Quick Blogcast - Ideal for people interested in starting a blog or podcast, this easy publishing platform allows you to share your thoughts, devotions, or sermons with a wider audience. You receive 300MB of space, and 15GB of monthly data transfer. A $41.28 value.
   


3. Free WebSite Tonight - Get a 5-page website and online creation tool. You don't need special HTML skills, but can simply design and write your website in a matter of hours. You get 50MB of space, and 1GB of monthly data transfer. A $59.88 value.
   
   OR
   
   Free Shared Hosting - If you want to design your own site, you can use this free version of our Economy Hosting Plan. Get 5GB of space, and 250GB of monthly data transfer in either a Windows or Linux hosting platform. Upload content by FTP, and you're ready to go! A $71.88 value.

That's more than $100 worth of free tools and utilities that comes with every domain registration at YourChurchWeb.net. Register your domain today for just $8.99 (+ a $.20 ICANN fee)/year.

If you're already a YourChurchWeb.net customer, you will see these new products appear in your account the next time your renew your domain.

Labels: domains, email, free products, hosting, photo filer, quick blogcast, shared hosting, WebSite Tonight

posted by PastorJon @ 9:38 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

For a limited time only, you can purchase a .info domain for only $.99
(+ $0.22 ICANN fee) for your first year registration. No, that wasn't a typo! I'm serious...just $1.21 gets you a domain that you can use for whatever you want.

What do you want an extra domain for?

Perhaps you need a "throwaway" domain to do some website development. I know some webmasters like to do their development at a domain that nobody (but them) knows about. You can purchase this domain for this low sale price, and simply not renew it next year.

Or maybe you want to give your pastor his own domain--you could associate a blog with the domain (either our hosted "Quick Blog" or the free "Blogger" tool). A .info domain would be just perfect.

And, remember that all of our domains come with free extras, including: forwarding, masking, email forwarding, 1 Complete Email (25mb) address, a starter web page, and a free Online Photo Filer account.

In fact, the free Online Photo Filer account alone is worth much more than the $1.21 you'll spend for the domain! You'll get 1GB of disk space to store your photos, 25GB of monthly data transfer, and the ability to print your photos directly from our low-cost photo store.

Your .info domain will renew at our regular rates in one year...but even so, at our current renewal rate of $8.75/yr (plus $.22 ICANN fee), you can't go wrong.

This offer expires at midnight on June 30, 2007 -- so don't wait -- purchase your .info domain today!

Grace and Peace,

Jonathan Twitchell
YourChurchWeb.net

Labels: .info, blogging, domains, email, photo filer, photo store

posted by PastorJon @ 6:12 PM 1 Comments Links to this post

I remember when internet email addresses first became widely available. I always felt bad for those poor CompuServe users who had a long number instead of a standard username! Since then, email has become an essential means of communication for anyone who uses a computer. It's very likely that you already have at least one email address (and maybe several!).

Sure, you get an email address from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). And, you can get a variety of free email addresses from a number of websites. But are you able to pick the email address you want to have? Are you tired of using that same email address that includes your high school graduation date? Can you access your email through both POP3 clients (like Outlook) and a first-class Webmail application? Does your email provide comprehensive phishing and virus protection, as well as spam filtering?

YourChurchWeb.net offers a variety of email solutions that offer all that and much more!

For starters, you'll get a minimum of 500 (10MB) email addresses with every hosting purchase, and 1 (25MB) address with each domain purchase, transfer, or renewal. In addition, you can purchase either our Deluxe or Premium plans, which allow you to divide 1GB of disk space among 5 addresses, or 2GB among 100 addresses, respectively.

Every email account features virus protection and spam filtering. You'll need to have a domain name to use with your email, but that means you have complete control over your personalized, easy-to-remember address. By matching your email addresses with your website domain, you continually remind people of the existence of your website. Our email addresses can be accessed through popular POP3 clients like Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Entourage, Apple Mail, or Evolution. You can also access your email from any internet-connected computer using our popular Web-Based Email.

Web-Based Email (WBE) lets you do just about everything your POP3 email client does. (To be honest with you, since April 2006 when I set up my 200MB WBE account, I haven't even used Microsoft Outlook). You can store your address book, inbox, and sent mail online--accessible from any computer. Powerful search features allow you to find any email message quickly, and an intuitive filing system helps you save the messages that are important to you. You can setup mailing lists, schedule message delivery, and even send greeting cards right from WBE.

One of the best features of WBE (in my opinion) is the ability to check your other POP3 email addresses at the click of a button. Instead of taking time to log into multiple email addresses, you can check them all at once and have them automatically delivered to a separate folder. Automatic filtering allows you to create rules to sort your incoming email. And, the ability to manage multiple identities from one WBE account allows you to also send using multiple email addresses.

Let me caution you to not expect to use some of these advanced features with the free 10MB accounts that you get with your hosting account. While the features are available, you may find it difficult to stay within the 10MB size limit. If you're using our free email addresses, I recommend using a POP3 client to regularly download your mail (and be sure not to check the box to "leave a copy of messages on server"), otherwise you will quickly fill your available space. However, even with a 10MB box, you can check your email from the road and stay in touch with church and family members.

So, what do you need for email? Most clients will be satisfied with the 501 free email addresses that come with their domain and hosting purchases. You can give the 25MB box to your pastor, give email addresses to every department head, set up a prayer chain, give a few to some church member or teenagers, and still have plenty left over.

However, if you spend a lot of time travelling, regularly work on multiple computers, want to store a lot of email on the server, or want to be able to manage several addresses from a single interface--you might want to consider purchasing one of our extended plans.

As always, let me know if you have any questions about what to choose--send me an email at sales@yourchurchweb.net. (You know I'll be using my Web-Based Email to check it!)

Grace and Peace,

Jonathan Twitchell
YourChurchWeb.net

Labels: email, products, web-based email

posted by PastorJon @ 8:20 AM 0 Comments Links to this post