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.org domains for only $6.99

2008-03-05T13:35:00.004-05:00

YourChurchWeb.net is pleased to announce that for a limited time only, you can register a .org for your church or Christian ministry for just $6.99.
Register your .org today!

Upgrade - All Shared Hosting Plans

2008-03-05T09:23:00.002-05:00

We're pleased to announce that all of our shared hosting plans have been upgraded with more space and bandwidth. This change is effective immediately for all new plans, and we'll be upgrading current plans over the next few weeks.

Economy Hosting
Space: was 5 GB - NOW 10 GB
Transfer: was 250 GB - NOW 300 GB

Deluxe Hosting
Space: was 100 GB - NOW 150 GB
Transfer: was 1,000 GB - NOW 1,500 GB

Premium Hosting
Space: was 200 GB - NOW 300 GB
Transfer: was 2,000 GB - NOW 3,000 GB

You don't have to do anything at all to take advantage of this upgrade. If you're a current customer, you may already be benefitting from this added space, if not, then you'll see the upgrade in your hosting space during the next few weeks.

If you find that your needs would now be met by a smaller hosting plan, you can always downgrade your plan. While you won't be able to receive a refund for this year's hosting fee, you'll be able to save money in future years by using a smaller plan.

Upgrade: Complete Email Account

2008-03-05T09:20:00.002-05:00

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.

Account Maintenance

2008-03-05T09:15:00.004-05:00

Ensure that your domain and hosting services continue uninterrupted by logging into the "My Account" area, and performing the following maintenance tasks:

Verify your security information - be sure that someone else in your organization knows your account username & password, as well as your "Call in PIN." This information will be vital for the continuation of your website if you ever move to another ministry.

Verify your contact information - incorrect contact information means that we can't contact you, and may be grounds for the termination of your domain name.

Verify your payment information - if your credit card has expired or is no longer valid, we will email you in an effort to correct the situation. However, it's always best to keep your account information up-to-date.

Check your auto-renew settings - if your domain expires, it will be held in "redemption" for you before it is released to the public. Save the expenses of buying back your domain by ensuring that it always renews on time.

Save money by yearly renewals - many of our products cost less when purchased for a year (or more). Consider upgrading your monthly plan to a yearly plan today.

Consider synchronized billing - you might have a hosting plan that renews in the spring and a domain that renews in the fall. You can use our "Synchronize Billing" feature under the "Renewals" menu to simplify life for your treasurer--and to make sure that you don't overlook a payment.

Save on .org, .mobi, and .eu domains

2008-02-15T08:29:00.006-05:00

I don't know how long we'll be able to offer these special prices, so you'll want to act quickly in order to take advantage of them!

.org - $6.99 for the first year
Purchase a new .org domain name and pay only $6.99 for the first year. Additional years may be purchased for our current price of $8.99/yr. (Additional ICANN fee of $.20/yr applies.)

.mobi - $10.99 for the first year
More people are browsing websites using their mobile devices. Reserve your .mobi today, to ensure that it's available for you in the future. You'll pay only $10.99 for your first year, and can add on additional years for our current price of $14.99/yr. (Additional ICANN fee of $.20/yr applies.)

.eu - $12.99/yr
Purchase or transfer for as many years as you like at the low, low price of $12.99/yr. This is a substantial savings over our regular price of $19.99/yr.

Don't delay--register your domains today!

Get more free with every domain!

2008-02-11T09:38:00.000-05:00

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Get your website started with Value Applications

2008-02-07T09:03:00.001-05:00

Every hosting plan comes with a selection of Value Applications, which are easily installed directly into your hosting space. Whether you want a discussion forum/message board, a photo gallery, or a chatroom, YourChurchWeb.net wants to help you get underway.

The list of Value Applications depends on your hosting plan, so you may want to choose your hosting plan accordingly.

Value Applications for a Windows Hosting Plan:

MS IE Web Controls (Pre-installed)
WSE 2.0 (Pre-installed)
ASPUpload 3.0 (Pre-installed)
ASPJPEG 1.4 (Pre-installed)
GUIDMaker (Pre-installed)
ASPCrypt (Pre-installed)
Community Server 2.0
DotNetNuke 4.0
YetAnotherForum
ASP.NET 2.0 PersonalWeb site Starter Kit (Deluxe & Premium Hosting only)
ASP.NET 2.0 Club SiteStarter Kit (Deluxe & Premium Hosting only)
ASP.NET 2.0 Time TrackerStarter Kit (Deluxe & Premium Hosting only)

Value Applications for a Linux Hosting Plan:

ImageMagick (Pre-installed)
Drupal
Moodle
Nucleus
Geeklog
Serendipity
WordPress
Gallery
Coppermine Photo Gallery
4images
Joomla!
Mambo
Xoops
PostNuke
WWW Paint Board
SMF (Simple Machines Forum)
Advanced Guestbook
Advanced Poll
phpCollab
Aardvark Topsites
paFileDB
phpMyFAQ
Noah's Classifieds
OpenDB

Depending on how you've designed your site, you may be able to change your hosting plan from one plan to another at no cost.

Get Help with Google Webmaster Tools

2008-02-07T09:00:00.000-05:00

New! With every hosting plan or WebSite Tonight� account, you now have easy access to Google Webmaster Tools, right from your hosting control panel. Without a doubt, Google is the most influential search engine, and it's important that you see your site the way Google sees it.

With Google Webmaster Tools(GWT), you can see how your site is performing, diagnose problems Google may have accessing your site, share information to help Google crawl your site better and much more. It's a fast, easy, free way to help increase your visibility and make your site more Google friendly!

Accessing GWT will depend on whether you have shared hosting or WebSite Tonight�. In both cases, you'll need to login to your account. If you have a shared Windows or Linux plan, you will open your "Hosting Control Panel" from the "My Hosting Accounts" page. From there, you'll open GWT with a link near the top of the page.

If you have a WebSite Tonight� account, you'll need to "Launch" the WebSite Tonight� management tool from the "My Websites" page. From there, look for a button near the bottom of the management tool.

Once you open Google Webmaster Tools, you'll need to verify the domains you have linked with the account, and then you can begin to see the tools that are available. You can get reports on the errors that Google found, you can create a sitemap to help Google index your site, and you can even change the frequency that Google indexes your site.

Use Amazon to create a church bookstore

2008-01-21T09:28:00.001-05:00

Does your pastor ever recommend books to your congregation? Do you have small groups that read books together? Are there recommended videos or Bible study aids that you want to be able to offer to your congregation? Are there books about your denomination that you would make available at your website?

Have you considered opening an online store? Or, have you been deterred by the costs of accepting online orders, keeping inventory in stock, and fulfilling orders? What if you just picked the products you wanted to make available, and let someone else handle everything else?

This is where Amazon's aStore comes in! You can create an "Amazon Associates" account for free, and have an online storefront up and running within hours. You can handpick the products you want to advertise, sort them into categories, and embed the entire storefront right into your website, so your visitors can shop right through your store. The shopping cart, order processing, credit card payments, fulfillment, and shipping are all handled by Amazon.

To top it all off, not only will Amazon take care of all of that, they'll pay your church a 4% (or more) commission on all the products you sell.

To see this in action, take a look at the storefront I just created for LectionaryChat.com. You can see how I customized the colors of the storefront to match the colors of the site, and how it is embedded (through the use of an iframe) right into the site so that visitors don't have to leave the site at all until they're ready to check out.

YourChurchWeb.net launches a sermon preparation site

2008-01-14T13:02:00.001-05:00

YourChurchWeb.net is pleased to help launch LectionaryChat.com. This website is for any pastor, teacher, or layperson who is interested in studying and discussing scripture based on the Revised Common Lectionary.

The software used to facilitate the discussion is Simple Machines Forum, one of the free Value Applications available with any Shared Linux Hosting account at YourChurchWeb.net.

Simple Machines Forum is an advanced community software package that enables users to set up and manage online forums. Program features include smiley and avatar management, secure file attachments, and an automatic mod installation system that allows upgrades and modifications to be downloaded and installed with just a few mouse clicks.

The forum is designed with one board for each week of the 3-year lectionary cycle, so that members can post their thoughts and participate in discussion, and have them readily available again during the next cycle of the lectionary. Membership is open to any who wish to join, and webmasters may want to take a look simply to see how the software functions on YourChurchWeb.net servers.

New Product: Protected Registration

2008-01-13T21:37:00.000-05:00

New in '08 - Protected Registration services for your domain!

Lots of things could go wrong--your credit card expires and you forget to update it; your email address changes and you forget to update your account information; or your spam filter deletes a renewal message--as a result, your domain expires, and some unsavory company snatches it up.

With Protected Registration, you can be sure that your domain never expires or is transferred without your knowledge and consent. In addition to Domain Ownership Protection, Protected Registration also includes Private Registration and Business Registration as an added bonus.

You can get all this for $24.99/yr. Customers who already have Private Registration or Business Registration can upgrade their package for a special upgrade price. Check it out today!

Happy New Year! - 2008 Price Cuts

2008-01-02T21:40:00.000-05:00

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!

More Price Cuts - All Shared Hosting Plans

2008-01-02T17:24:00.000-05:00

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
Economy	$6.75/mo	$6.49/mo
Deluxe	$12.75/mo	$12.49/mo
Premium	$19.75/mo	$19.49/mo

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
Economy	$5.99/mo	$5.59/mo	$5.39/mo
Deluxe	$11.59/mo	$10.79/mo	$10.39/mo
Premium	$17.99/mo	$16.79/mo	$16.19/mo

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.

Price Cut - Dedicated IP (Annual Subscription)

2008-01-02T14:07:00.000-05:00

If you need a Dedicated IP address for your site, you'll be happy to read that we've reduced the price of our annual (and longer) subscriptions to this service during 2008. If you're already subscribed on an annual basis, you will automatically see this saving the next time you renew. If you're paying by the month, you'll want to upgrade to an annual subscription in order to save 10%.

Not sure what a Dedicated IP address is, or whether or not you would benefit from this tool? Read on:

A Dedicated IP (Internet Protocol) is a unique Internet address dedicated exclusively to a single hosting account. Normally, several hosting accounts reside on a single server and share that server's IP address. Dedicated IP addresses are usually used for large SSL-encrypted secure Web sites and particularly large and/or traffic-heavy sites. Most shared hosting users have no particular need for a dedicated IP address.

However, a dedicated IP address for your hosting account enables you to:

View your Web site via its IP address.
Access your accounts by FTP or the Web when the domain name is otherwise inaccessible, such as during domain name propagation periods.
Ensure faster response during periods of high traffic load.
Set up SSL protection on your Web site.

NOTE: Our SSL certificates include a dedicated hosting IP, so you do not need to purchase a dedicated IP credit separately if you are adding a certificate to your site.

Dedicated IP addresses cost $2.99/mo, or $32.29/yr.

Price Cut - Traffic Facts

2008-01-02T13:59:00.000-05:00

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.

Sale Continued - WebSite Tonight

2008-01-02T13:51:00.000-05:00

Good news: we've decided to continue our "New Year's Resolution Sale" for another month. Save on WebSite Tonight between now and January 31, 2008!

Read more about WebSite Tonight: http://www.yourchurchblog.net/2007/10/new-years-resolution-start-website.html

Special Discount for Church of the Nazarene

2008-01-01T14:15:00.001-05:00

Nazarene churches and ministries save 10% off our already low prices! Read on to find out how...

Welcome to YourChurchWeb.net, where countless churches and ministries have found affordable webhosting and domain services to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the internet. We've been around since 2001, and we'd love to have you join our growing family of churches and Christian ministries.

At the top of this page, you'll find menus that will help showcase our robust and affordable line of domain and hosting products. Whether you're looking for web-hosting, email solutions, blogging or podcast software, domain registration, or an online file or photo storage solution, YourChurchWeb.net is ready to help assemble the tools you need.

As an example of our low prices--domains can be registered from as low as $8.99/yr. Our Economy hosting plan includes a whopping 10GB of space (300GB of monthly data transfer) for as little as $5.39/mo.

YourChurchWeb.net is owned and operated by a Nazarene Pastor, currently pastoring in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. During 2008, we're offering a special discount for sister churches - simply enter the code 50CN10 during checkout for a 10% savings on your new product purchase of $50 or more. Whether you've been in ministry for years, or are a NewStart, our web tools can help you expand the reach of your ministry.

We hope to be able to serve you and your ministry for many years to come!

Grace and Peace,

Pastor Jon Twitchell

Click here to visit YourChurchWeb.net.

Merry Christmas - Save 10%

2007-12-03T17:00:00.000-05:00

It's been a great year at YourChurchWeb.net! We've helped many churches and ministries expand their ministry on the internet, we've made our packages and plans more robust and easier to use, and we've continually reduced our prices!

As our special Christmas gift to you, we want to welcome you to the YourChurchWeb.net family with a very special discount--save 10% on your order of $50 or more. Simply enter the code 50CN10 during the checkout process. (Code not valid on renewals or other discounted products.)

We hope that your internet ministry will grow exponentially during 2008!

New Year's Resolution? Start a Website!

2007-12-02T17:40:00.000-05:00

During the month of December, we are encouraging all churches to begin a web-ministry by offering discounted prices on WebSite Tonight. WebSite Tonight is a template-driven website development tool to help people get a site online quickly and easily. There is no software to buy, and no special knowledge needed.

You can save as much as 29% if you act now. An 3-year subscription to the Economy WebSite Tonight package will only cost you $2.85/month. This sale is good for new purchases and renewals... save money by renewing your WebSite Tonight before the end of 2007!

Are you .MOBI?

2007-11-04T21:21:00.000-05:00

Did you know that there are 2.2 billion cell phones in use today? Is your website available to the growing number of mobile web users? Register a .MOBI today, so you can launch a companion website that can be accessed via a variety of mobile devices, including cell phones, SmartPhones, Windows Mobile Devices, RIM devices and more.

.MOBI addresses are on sale during the month of November for only $7.99. Get yours during this limited-time offer.

Sale: Nov & Dec, 2007 - Quick Blog & Podcast

2007-11-01T08:37:00.000-05:00

More churches are finding value in providing syndicated content on their website through a blog or podcast. In addition to providing an easy way to provide fresh material on your site, blogs and podcasts are subscribable--which means that people can automatically receive updates without visiting your website.

With the beginning of the year around the corner, you might encourage your pastor or youth leader to start a blog--they can share devotional thoughts, personal updates, church news, or upload notes from Sunday's message.

Or, you could record your sermons and create a podcast, expanding the reach of your pulpit ministry around the world. Podcasts are a great way to minister to people in Gospel-resistant portions of the world, as well as those who work nights & weekends. Podcasts can also help people "check out" your church before they come visit in person.

Our "Blogcast" application will help you create, manage, publish, and syndicate a variety of content. Blogcast comes in four flavors--basic, economy, deluxe, and premium. We recommend that most bloggers start with the basic package, while podcasters should consider starting with the deluxe package.

During November, we've made it even more affordable for you to try this powerful tool. Save as much as 20% off our regular rates by purchasing a blogcast in time for 2008! If you already subscribe to our blogcast tool, you can still lock in these great rates by manually renewing your plan for as many months as you would like.

Save up to 20% on Annual Hosting Plans!

2007-10-31T19:22:00.000-05:00

You can save your church up to 20% by converting your monthly hosting plan to an annual subscription. Between now and the end of 2007, we're running a special sale for annual subscriptions. Anyone can take advantage of this sale, even if your plan doesn't expire for several months. Simply login to your account and renew your hosting plan now. The longer you subscribe, the more you save!

Here's a look at the savings you can realize, simply by converting to an annual subscription plan:

Economy Hosting:
Monthly Rate: $6.75
Yearly Cost (when purchased monthly): $81.00
Sale - Yearly Rate: $64.68
Savings - $16.32

Deluxe Hosting:
Monthly Rate: $12.75
Yearly Cost (when purchased monthly): $153.00
Sale - Yearly Rate: $124.68
Savings - $28.32

Premium Hosting:
Monthly Rate: $19.75
Yearly Cost (when purchased monthly): $237.00
Sale - Yearly Rate: $194.28
Savings - $42.72

Are you already on a yearly subscription plan? You can still take advantage of these great sale prices by renewing your hosting plan between now and December 31, 2007.

Your Church - Reaching over One Billion People

2007-10-17T13:18:00.000-05:00

How big is your church? 50? 100? 5000? 20,000?

Regardless of your answer to that question, would you like to double your reach? Triple it? Imagine reaching one million people... How about a billion?

I pastor a small church of about 45 people on the coast of Maine. And yet, our congregation is doubled (or more!) each week by people who tune into our weekly sermon podcast. The reach of our ministry extends to Japan, China, Iran, Germany, South Africa and more. We estimate that we've had around 30,000 individual sermon downloads since April of 2006. (You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or by email.)

As of the writing of this article, the population of the world is estimated to be 6.6 billion people. In 2005, the the internet welcomed its one-billionth user, and the two-billionth user is expected to logon sometime during 2011. And yet, "most protestant churches in the USA average no more than 75 each week, with the largest percentage actually between 26 and 50." (Fast Facts, Holiness Today, September/October 2007, p. 32)

With internet usage growing so rapidly in the next 4 years, let me ask you this simple question: "What are you doing to spread the Gospel through the internet?"

Now is the perfect time to launch (or expand) your internet ministry. If your church isn't posting its sermons online, why not? If your pastor preaches from a manuscript or detailed outline, can you simply post the material? If not, is there someone in your church who can transcribe the messages for internet use? If you're already recording your sermons for internal distribution, why not encode those messages for podcast subscriptions?

Here at YourChurchWeb.net, we want to help you build your internet ministry. Take some time to look around and see the various products we offer--how can we help you bring the Gospel to more than a billion people?

Registry Price Increase

2007-10-11T14:59:00.000-05:00

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.

Our Lowest Domain Price Ever!

2007-10-01T08:46:00.000-05:00

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!