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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Happy New Year! - 2008 Price Cuts
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I'm excited to announce that we're (once again!) reducing our prices! Since 2006, we've been able to gradually reduce the prices of our most popular products. How? Because YourChurchWeb.net has continued to grow...primarily through your referrals to pastors and board members from other churches/ministries. Our 2008 Price Cuts include: While the price cuts range from small to significant, they all reflect our commitment to continue to offer low prices on hosting and domain services for Churches and Christian Ministries. May God bless you, your church, your ministry, and your website during 2008! Labels: 2008 price cuts, prices
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More Price Cuts - All Shared Hosting Plans
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We're undergoing some signficant pricing restructuring--and it's all designed to benefit you and your church! As part of our pricing reductions, the prices of all Shared Hosting Plans have been changed. Our monthly prices have been reduced by $0.26/mo, saving all customers a minimum of $3.12/yr. The table below illustrates the changes made in the prices for those customers who purchase their hosting on a month-to-month basis. Plan | 2007 Prices | 2008 Prices |
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Economy | $6.75/mo | $6.49/mo |
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Deluxe | $12.75/mo | $12.49/mo |
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Premium | $19.75/mo | $19.49/mo |
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In addition, customers who purchase their hosting on an annual basis will see even greater savings, as illustrated below:
Plan | 1 year | 2 years | 3+ years |
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Economy | $5.99/mo | $5.59/mo | $5.39/mo |
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Deluxe | $11.59/mo | $10.79/mo | $10.39/mo |
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Premium | $17.99/mo | $16.79/mo | $16.19/mo |
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These pricing changes could result in up to a 20% savings for your church or Christian ministry! You may not have to do anything at all to take advantage of these savings. If your hosting account is set to auto-renew, it will renew with the new pricing in effect. However, you may wish to maximize your savings by changing the duration of your hosting plan. To do this, simply visit http://www.yourchurchweb.net/, click on "My Account," login, and click on "Renewing Items." From there, choose the service you want to renew, and follow the prompts selecting the duration you want to renew. Labels: 2008 price cuts, hosting, prices
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Price Cut - Traffic Facts
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Learn how your visitors interact with your website! What times of day is your site the busiest? How long does the average visitor stay? What pages are they looking at most often? How many international visitors do you have? What is bringing visitors to your website? Answers to these important questions will help you understand how your website is used, and enhance your ministry to the people who are reading your site. Traffic Facts has always been available to help you analyze your site--but now it's even more affordable! As part of our 2008 price cuts, we've been able to reduce the cost of this tool by 33%. Purchase Traffic Facts today for as little as $1.99/month! This is not a limited time offer, but a long-term change in our pricing. I hope that this tool will help you enhance your online ministry, as you understand more about the people who are visiting your website. Labels: 2008 price cuts, prices, Traffic Facts
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Registry Price Increase
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YourChurchWeb.net is committed to offering a quality product at an affordable price for churches and Christian ministries. We are continually working to offer the best sales, promotions, and even the ocassional price reduction in order to meet the needs of our customers. However, sometimes situations outside of our control force us to make slight increases in our prices. On April 5, 2007, ICANN approved a price increase for certain registries (.com, .net, .org, .info, and .biz). While we've worked hard to minimize the effect of this pricing change on our customers, we will have to make nominal increases in our pricing in order to cover these costs. Effective October 15, 2007, the prices for these TLDs will be $8.99/yr (plus an ICANN fee of $.20/yr). Thank you for choosing YourChurchWeb.net for all your web-hosting needs. Labels: domains, ICANN, prices
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Monday, October 01, 2007
Our Lowest Domain Price Ever!
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Between now and November 30th, get a brand new domain name at rock-bottom prices when you purchase any non-domain product. For only $1.99, you can register the first year of any .com, .us, .biz, .info, .name, .net, or .org domain. And, you also get all sorts of great freebies with your domain! Labels: domains, prices, Sales
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Monday, July 02, 2007
.info domains for only $1.99
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Until September 30, 2007, you can purchase a .info domain for as little as $1.99 (plus an ICANN fee of twenty cents)! What a great way to get yourself on the internet, or to purchase an extra domain for a particular ministry of your church. These are the cheapest domains you'll find available on our storefront, so if you need to maximize affordability, the .info domains are the way to go! Labels: domains, prices, Sales
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
ICANN Lowers Registrar Transaction Fee - Retroactive!
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has lowered their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22, retroactively to July 1, 2006. Since this fee is passed directly to you in the registration/renewal process, we will be issuing credits in the amount of the appropriate refund. In the near future, you will be credited with $.03/yr for each domain you registered through our storefront during the appropriate time period. This is an in-store credit, which will be applied to any future purchases you make during the next twelve months. Our customer service department may need to contact you about this credit, so please be sure your contact information for your customer account is current. I know this isn't a huge amount of money--but if you registered multiple domain names for multiple years, those $.03 per domain name year really add up! If you have any questions, please contact our customer support department at 480-624-2500. Labels: domains, ICANN, prices
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
Most Affordable Christian Web Host
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It's been a while since I researched what other companies are charging for webhosting, so I decided to spend the last couple of hours searching for as many other Christian web hosts as I could find. If you're in the process of looking for a Christian based web host to serve your church, ministry, or Christian business, be prepared to spend some time researching your options. In this post, I'll answer some of your commonly asked questions about MB, GB, storage and transfer, and I'll also provide you with the prices that I found during my searching. My intent is not that you would just "take my word for it," but that this information would provide a starting point for you as you search for the host that will best meet the needs of your church or Christian ministry. What is MB and GB? MB stands for Megabytes (or megs), and GB stands for Gigabytes (or gigs). These are units which measure the size of your files. There are 1024 bytes in a Kilobyte, 1024KB in a Megabyte, and 1024 Megabites in a Gigabyte. Each week I upload a 20 minute sermon audio file that utilizes about 10MB. The old floppy diskettes held 1.44MB, a CD-ROM holds 700MB, and a DVD-ROM holds 4.7GB. What is storage? Storage is the amount of space you have available to you on the server. Whether these files are linked to your website or simply stored there to be accessed by FTP, whenever you upload files, they take up some of the space in your account. Our economy hosting plan includes 5GB of hosting space. What is data transfer, traffic, or bandwidth? Different hosts use different words to refer to the same basic concept. Data transfer refers to the amount of data that can be moved to or from your server during a given month. For example, if I have 1,000 downloads of a 10MB audio file during a month, then I've used 10,000MB (or 10GB) of data transfer. Our economy hosting plan includes 250GB of data transfer each month. How much storage and transfer do I need? Every ministry is going to have different needs, depending on what they plan to do with their website. If you're primarily going to host text, then you don't need as much space as you would if you plan on hosting photos, audio, or even video. Consider what you plan to have available on your website, and start tallying how much space you think it will need. Then, consider how many visitors you hope to have each month, and what percentage of your site you expect them to download, and then you have a bandwidth projection. What sort of prices did you find in your research? I'm glad you asked! To be honest, while I knew that we offered an affordable hosting package, I was somewhat surprised to see that we were among the least expensive Christian webhosts that are operating today. In fact, during my search, I didn't find any other Christian web hosting company that offered more space & transfer for less money. In the following comparison chart, I list one plan for each host. In each case, I picked the hosting plan that I felt most closely matched our "economy" hosting plan in regards to space and transfer. In fairness, it should be noted that our "economy" plan is a very robust hosting plan, and few other hosts match it. In other words, I found that I was often comparing our least expensive plan with their most expensive plan. Consequently, if you don't need as much space as we provide, you may find that a smaller plan offered by another company would be cheaper and still suit your needs. * - indicates that the webhost does not state their data transfer limits. This may be due to a "soft limit" model in which the bandwidth is monitored but not limited unless it becomes excessive. If you are considering a host with a "soft limit," be sure that your questions about limits, throttling, and overage charges are explained to your satisfaction. There is one anomaly in that chart that deserves further exploration. ChristianWebHost.com offers a very robust plan with 40GB of space and 150GB of data transfer. Instead of comparing it to our "economy" plan as I did in the chart above, I really should compare it to our "deluxe" plan: As you can see, if you are needing more space than our economy plan (5GB), then our more robust plan (100GB) is still extremely affordable. Information in this post was accurate as of March 11, 2007. I have presented monthly costs if you were to purchase your hosting by the month. Some discounts may be available for annual purchases. Also, just as YourChurchWeb.net runs sales and promotions, I assume that the other hosts referenced here have sales and promotions as well, which are obviously not reflected in the pricing chart. You'll also see that I've listed domain prices when available. However, some of the hosts listed above do include domain registration with their hosting plan. Please read carefully the terms and conditions of included domain registrations--you want to make sure that the domain is registered in your (or your church's) name, and that you can take it with you if you ever move to another host. One of the hosts above will pay for your domain as long as you are their customer, but it is stipulated that they own the domain, and that you can't take it with you. Most churches I know would rather pay the $9.00 a year, simply for that added flexibility. By the way, even if you choose one of these other hosts, we'd be happy to serve as your registrar. You'll see that our domain registration prices are among the lowest that you'll find. If you own or operate one of these hosting companies and feel that I have somehow misunderstood or misrepresented your hosting plan, please contact me so I can correct this post. And, if you'd rather not be listed here at all, just let me know and I'll be happy to remove your company's name and information. Obviously, I want to serve your church or ministry. I'd also like to help you save money, which you can use to help strengthen your other ministries. I'd be more than happy to help you transfer your website to our servers, or to discuss other options with you. Please don't hesitate to send me an email: sales@yourchurchweb.net. Grace and Peace, Jonathan Twitchell YourChurchWeb.net Labels: domains, hosting, prices
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Jonathan Twitchell,
the owner of YourChurchWeb.net, is also a pastor and podcaster.
He and his wife Melody live near the coast of Maine with
their black, long-hair, bobtail cat named Kiera.
Pastor Jon believes that churches must stay abreast of new technologies
in their effort to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Through websites, podcasts, radio and television, the Church
of the 21st century has the unique opportunity to be available to all
people, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
YourChurchWeb.net was begun in 2001 based on the conviction that every
church ought to have a website, and that the technology should be as
affordable as possible.
Jonathan's brother Douglas
Twitchell joins us on this blog as an occasional guest
blogger. Douglas is the owner of Virtu Software,
and specializes in web-based programming and database development. For
an example of some of Doug's work, check out Quote Puzzler.
Doug is also very involved in ministry through his local church,
and his ministry
and devotional website.
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