We launched Ning 3.0 just over two weeks ago. While the overall market response has been really awesome, we have – based on the feedback here on Creators – somewhat underestimated the confusion and potential pain this new generation platform could create for some of you.
We value and carefully consider your input, and have decided to offer more flexibility and appreciation for you all as existing Ning customers.
Grandfathered in at 2x Member Limits
Rather than differentiate plans by features, storage and bandwidth, we set member limits for each plan. Number of members is a visible and intuitive measure of Network Creator success. We believe that you deserve a break when the time comes to upgrade. Therefore, existing Ning Networks will be grandfathered in at 2x the member limit of the new plans.
When you upgrade from Ning 2.0 to Ning 3.0, the Basic plan will support 2,000 members and the Performance plan will support 20,000 members. According to our data, this means that less than 1% of all our existing customers should see any price increase.
3-Month Post Upgrade Grace Period
We have also decided to give you an extra three more months after you upgrade before applying any member limits. And we will provide you with tools during and after the upgrade process to remove long-time inactive members from your network and clean house.
Limitless Moderators
Several of you voiced concerns with limiting the number of moderators. Recruiting active members to help moderate is a powerful tool for NCs to effectively manage their community and reward their most engaged members. We agree and we will be changing our pricing plans to reflect this. All Ning 3.0 subscribers can have an unlimited number of moderators (capped by your members plan limit). Moderators can be given full moderation privileges (approve, feature, edit, delete or suspend) for multiple features, content type and/or members. However the Ning 3.0 plans include a limitation on the number of Administrators—those with full access to the design, layout and settings of your network— Administrators will be limited to 2, 5 and 10 respectively.
'Powered by Ning | Mode Social' Footer Requirement
As we have shared in our FAQs and in several discussion topics, displaying "Powered by Ning | Mode Social" in network footers is important for the health of our business. While we recognize that some of you will decide to leave the platform on account of it, we will not waive this requirement. However to mitigate the impact for some of you, we do intend to put an affiliate program in place that will allow you to gain some value for clickthroughs and referrals. We’ll also provide more flexibility in terms of where and how to display the logo (options such as centering it).
Ning 2.0 Upgrade, Migration and Retirement Timeline
As we have announced, we are working on a seamless upgrade process for Ning 2.0 Networks and plan to release it this summer. Once the upgrade process is available, Ning 2.0 Networks will have at least one year to move to Ning 3.0. We will confirm the exact schedule for the Ning 2.0 retirement when we officially release these migration tools. Before we officially release these tools, we are planning to work with many of you on a beta program for this key feature to make sure that it works as well as can be expected and minimize all changes and concerns for the vast majority of our existing customers.
We hope these changes address most of your concerns and give you a bit more confidence in our own ability to listen to you all. We appreciate the time and energy you pour into your communities, and are committed to delivering you a great and viable platform for years to come.
Thank you all for your feedback; we couldn’t do this without you. If you haven’t already, please take advantage of our offer to create a Ning 3.0 Sandbox Network. We would love for you to experience the redesign firsthand and get a jump-start on developing your Ning 3.0 Network. Don't forget to drop by and let us know how it's going!
NOTE: Post Edited on 4/29/14 to reflect Glam Media's name change to Mode Media.
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when the sitebuilders fixed layouts will be easy
I have built sites using Dreamweaver....good choice!
I'd like to know that also.
Well said Strumelia and you make some very good points - this is a Creator's forum and altho I don't read it often, when there are issues that folks bring up, I am reading them like crazy - For those who find it distracting and boring, you are free to delete, but do it without negative comment, because this is an open forum and everyone is entitled to continue a discussion that will impact their site, whether it appears repetitive or not. Yes, I have received countless emails about this discussion and there is a lot of hand wringing and head banging with no real answers but the key to all this un-nerving is that it helped me realize I had better get off my butt and save my site before I wake up one day and its gone. So sound the alarm as much as you want Strumelia, you helped one Creator wake up and get busy shopping for something better for myself and my members and I think you should do the same before it is too late... And by the way, how does everyone feel about using SOCIAL ENGINE?
I have a Social Engine PHP site. It's working great. :)
Oh, thank you Donna for the info - I was just looking it up and reading about it - what does it mean that you would be your own server?
oops was thinking of donnas site not yours haha
i think anyways donna if yours was a lpolitical site id recomend a hijgher ssl possibly
Why would I ever want a political site YUK! LOL! I have a wonderful dedicated server for my community.
haha i agree i think i was thinking of susan or i cant remember who lol
means you need your own hosting server to install it on im testing jambase not social engine wich looks way better and i had to upgrade a server fromm vps (virtual private server) to cloud server (because it needed a spoecific php version that woulod have disabled my other sites) then again to dedicated server because the max hard drive space on cloud servers was 160 giigs my small siteswere using 110 gigs and my site was using 150 gigs alone you will need a higher end server to run your site unloess its very small and very low trafic..shgared hosting will not do tyhe trick you will need a miunumum of a vps my sites large and with 65 thousangd photos 8000 mp3s etc etc it needed alot of space
at a rough estimate you will want a vps with 4 gigs ram minumum 120 gig hard drive space..minumum (to alows growsth even if your very smallnow) bandwidth limits depentnds on the trafic (upgrading to a higher package is easy, unless you have to migrate from vps to dedicatedd) u will also need minimum of 2 cores procvessors however id highly recomebd 4 asa minumum ..im run ning 8 with 8 gigs ram and 2 terabytes drive to alow unlimmited muysic and vid and photo uploads and that should be enough spa ce for a ferw years growth b4 upgreading
your looking at a charge ofmin 59 for a very lowen d vps though for the min specs id recomend more like 114 or 179 ish im paying 259 i think because i a)
you will also need a ssl certificate to keep the server ande logi9n data secure ssls are from 45 to 145 a year i think the 145 is a mukti subdomain or ecc ssl that covers multiplse sites on subdomains any of the cheaper options are fine for a single domain just the more expensive ones tend to have like 500,000 dollar dataloss insurance ..more importanyt for shops and such where money could be stolen if hacked
but it i think also protects against lawsuites if data and prersonal info is stolen
a law form as an example would maybe want the highest level security
was yours a political site i forget i think yours was tyhe constitutional conservatives? you might want a higher ssl with some basic insurance just cause u might be targetted
i can recomen d options forya if u want
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