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Changes coming November 2nd to premium service plans

Posted by Jay Roberts on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:00:12 PM

We understand when moving to our premium solution, one or two plans just doesn't fit all. Starting on Monday November 2nd we will be discontinuing our Pro and Lite Plan structure for a more flexible build your own plan premium option. Now all new accounts will be Pro accounts or "Premium Accounts".

The largest differences between our current plans and the new build a premium package include;

Scalable traffic selection (Our current plans allowed 25,000 page views with additional fees for overages). By allowing you to select your traffic allowance, Allows us to offer plans starting at only $4.95/mo (No Yearly Prepay required)
Removes the page view limit and replaces it with a more industry standard of Monthly Giga Byte (GB) transfer allowance
Allows you to pick and chose the premium features you want to use (Shopping Cart, Member Subscriptions, Ad Manager, Video Uploading)
Select your own page, element and storage limits so that you can price a plan that works best for you.
Select a support plan, allowing you to decide the level of support you would like to use.
You can no longer add a domain unless you are a premium customer.
There will be a noticeable overall price increase with our new pricing since things are now itemized, but we will continue offering our large discounts for prepaying 6 months or more.
No more shopping cart item limit, the shopping cart is now a flat $10 add-on with unlimited items.
New Video Uploading option, with your own player. (This enables people to upload video right to your website and has sharing features)

For those of you that support us by upgrading, for the most part this will not effect you or your plan with the exception on how your traffic limits are handled. Currently all upgrade plans included a base of 25,000 page views, since page views as a form of usage measurement are being discontinued you will be switched over to 50GB monthly transfer for Pro accounts and 25GB monthly transfer for Lite. As always, when we have changed our pricing model we honor existing plan pricing for current customers, so unless you cancel or upgrade your plan you never have to worry about your price going up.

If you are not upgraded but want to under the current plans I encourage you to do so before next week. As with any of our current customers, your pricing will be locked in.


			Admin231(Nov 7th) No!!! PLEASE DONT HAVE THE FEATURE TO HAVE A DOMAIN FOR PLUS MEMBERS! I'mm eave spruz if you do. Rate0


			TheAfricans(Oct 30th) YES.....WHAT A GREAT FEATURES .... THE BEST ON THE WEB.. SPRUZ...IS THE GOOD PLACE TO START... Rate0


			Edvard_D(Oct 30th) Sounds like a good idea, but like K.Hooper said, this could hurt larger sites or discourage some from growing if they know they won't be able to afford steeper prices. I like Meuslix's idea about reducing the price based on the number of features to purchase. It could really help if they're debating if one or two extra features would really be worth it or not. Also, when "Pro" features are added in the future will current Pro accounts get them too, or will we only have access to features currently available (ex: will we be able to used the video upload feature?). I'm curious as to how the conversion from Page Views to GB will work. That's a good move either way, and I think using GB will give us more "page views", since 25k really isn't that much for larger sites. -Edvard D Rate0


			Edvard_D(Oct 30th) I see. Thanks for the answer! -Edvard D Rate0


			Jay Roberts(Oct 30th) There are discounts on the more you buy, the more you get for less. As for the status of Pro plans you will have the same things you have now, on the new video uploading you will need to build a new plan in order to add it same goes for future premium features that are not part of the current plan. Rate0


			Spokenx(Oct 29th) Keep up the excellent work! And thanks for the support that will be well rewarded. . .:: your friend { Literati Di Graffito X }. . . Rate0


			meuslix(Oct 29th) so, current pro users, will get all the features for the same price we're already locked in at? maybe there should be a discount for ordering certain numbers of features, so that people feel like they are getting a package discount, but just choosing what goes in their package. like say if you get 5 optional features, you get a discount, then the price point will still be manageable and attractive to new site makers. Rate0


			David(Oct 29th) Thank you for the seggestions. The idea with this is to allow users to only pay for what they need. Rate0


			K.Hooper(Oct 29th) Glad to hear us pro users will not have to worry about these changes as for pricing (personally I don't think itemizing the plans is a really good ideal however that ain't my decision to make and might benefit smaller sites but will hurt the larger ones) Only part that I am not very sure of is how much would the average page view be in size? Rate0


			animesanswebmaster(Oct 29th) OMG that would be great. Now define new accounts. like accounts made this month or after the upgrade. Anyway Thanks Rate0