As a continuation of the adjustments to our offered plans we began at the start of this year, we’re making the following changes to the plans offered for Ning 2.0, effective October 1, 2016:
- Retiring the Ning Mini plan. We discontinued new Mini subscriptions in October 2012. After keeping your Mini subscription and rates the same for nearly 4 years, we are now discontinuing all existing Ning Mini subscriptions. Mini Network Creators will have the choice of upgrading to the Ning Plus or Ning Pro plans or canceling their network. Mini networks we don’t receive a response from prior to October 1st will be canceled and locked at the end of their current bill cycle.
- Increasing Ning Plus and Pro prices. After five years, we are now raising our rates for both the Ning Plus and Pro plans, which have remained the same since July 2011. Plus Network Creators will be able opt into the new Plus rates or cancel. Pro Network Creators will be able to downgrade to Plus, opt into the new Pro rates, or cancel. Plus and Pro networks we don’t receive a response from prior to October 1st will renew at the new rates, beginning their first bill cycle after October 1st, and will continue to renew until we receive a formal request for cancellation via phone or email.
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Current Ning 2.0 Rates (in effect since July 2011) |
New Ning 2.0 Rates* (effective October 1st) |
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Monthly |
Annual |
Monthly |
Annual |
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Plus |
$24.95 |
$239.90 |
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$59 |
$588 |
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Pro |
$59.95 |
$599.90 |
to |
$119 |
$1,188 |
*Existing feature sets, storage limits, and support levels remain the same on both plans
In addition to the notification emails that went out today, we’ll be reaching out again shortly in subsequent email reminders with customized links that will allow you to accept this price increase or cancel your current plan. In the meantime, please take a look at the FAQs below. They should answer any questions you have about this, but we’ll do our best to clarify if they don’t.
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How do I find out when my subscription renews?
You can find out what your bill cycle date is and when your subscription renews by logging into your Ning.com account, clicking the "See Billing & Invoice History" link, and viewing your invoices.
I’m on Ning 3.0, will my subscription fee go up, too?
No, we do not have plans to raise Ning 3.0 prices at this time.
My Ning Plus/Pro – Annual subscription just renewed in July. When will I see the new rates?
Your current subscription and its rates are valid through the end of your current bill cycle, through July 2017. You will only see the new rates once your subscription renews next summer.
My Ning Plus/Pro – Monthly subscription is set to renew September 20th. When will I see the new rates?
Your subscription and its rates will be valid through the end of that bill cycle, through October 20th. You will see the new rates once your October invoice posts.
What about add-on pricing?
There is not any change to add-on pricing or plans to change add-on pricing or subscriptions at this time.
I don’t want to continue my network. How do I get my content?
You can archive your network's content with the Ning Network Archiver. Head to My Network > Content > Archive on your network to install Adobe Air and the Ning Network Archiver on your computer. More information about archiving your content can be found here.
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A quote from Strumelia re: 'misinformation' about Jamroom being posted on this site (see the original thread here:- https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/new_posts/43009/h...; )
I would just like to add re: cost...I am paying $60 a month total for a 5000 (approx) member site. I have FAR more features than Ning 2 or 3 and updates are frequent, and the support is second to none. You say "It's nothing at all like Ning. Not by a mile" To which I can only reply....thank god!!!! :)
Sam, on that thread in Creators there is indeed some misinformation about Jamroom being posted.
The fact is, there are MANY former Ning site owners who have successfully and happily migrated from Ning to Jamroom and we are thriving here. We closed our ning sites and were then (unsurprisingly) BANNED from the Creators forum, so we can no longer post there, including posting anything helpful about Jamroom.
There are a few there on Creators however who experimented with Jamroom and for various reasons it didn't suit them- maybe it didn't behave enough like ning for them right off the bat, or they didn't go beyond the first one or two preliminary steps in creating their site, and they left in frustration. They remain on Creators because they are still on their Ning sites, and they are not happy campers. I feel for them. But the people who successfully migrated to Jamroom are MANY, and they are not to be found posting on ning's Creators forum. We post here.
1) Paul explained about the incorrect info about having to PAY for all emails to members. Simply not true unless you are sending out an extraordinary number of emails to your members every month. I don't think it's easy to find a free service to send out 200,000 emails from within a network platform anywhere..including Ning.
2) It's now being stated on Creators that the cost of Jamroom is "BIG". This is simply FALSE- I will be honest here and say I've spent two or three hundred dollars initially and ever since then I only pay my monthly server cost on Jamroom, which for my 30 GB site runs around $60/month. That's the TOTAL of what Jamroom costs me, period. Prices on Jamroom Hosting plans are stated plainly here: https://www.jamroom.net/hosting
Self-hosted Jr prices are here: https://www.jamroom.net/pricing
Any claims that Jamroom costs a fortune are simply sour grapes from someone who may have made a lot of ill-advised decisions with no interest in looking at information that might have helped them. You want to pay a fortune?- go to SocialEnginePHP or stay on Ning.
3) Lastly, I must say that I very much resent my name being used on Creators in order to try and discourage people from using Jamroom. Quite the opposite!
Over a year and a half ago when ning site owners first began asking Jamroom developers for help, the Jamroom Team began to develop an import tool to help people wanting to move from Ning- to import and save their ning archive content. They also created the 'Ningja' skin to help make a jamroom site seem more 'ning-like' in order to further ease the transition for anxious non-coders like myself. Later yet they created the Jamroom Site Builder Tool which would make building a site more 'drag and drop' for us laymen as well.
My ning site was one of the initial group of beta tests for importing ning sites. As such, there was a large amount of testing and the Jamroom Team was asking for in depth input and suggestions from us initial ning migrants. For example, they literally BUILT jamroom Groups for us, to receive our Ning Groups and group discussions. They bent over backwards to help us ning-ers, there was a LOT going on, and that was even before the Site Builder tool was created. That's why I spent months working on my new JR site before I went live- I had no impending ning deadline and I was spending time getting to know how Jamroom worked, learning some rudimentary site building/running skills, and giving feedback to get new features and options for us ning refugees.
Fast-forward to now- Dozens and dozens of features and improvements have since been added specifically for the benefit of ning users, and the Site Builder tool has been built and updated to the point where it really helps non-coders (like me) build their sites more quickly and easily.
I guess my point about the Creators forum really is this- for every 1 ning creator unhappily stuck on Ning making bitter or untrue posts about Jamroom there, there are probably 50 or more of us who have moved to Jamroom successfully and are happily running our JR sites now...and no longer on Ning Creators posting about our dilemma. Thanks for allowing my little mini-vent.
Hi Ceri!
Thank you soooo much for your post - very informative and helpful - much appreciated.
Sam x
Strumelia asked me to post this from the thread on the Jamroom Forum and I am very happy to do so :) :-
The original thread is here:- https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/new_posts/43009/h...
"I initially "coughed up" about $200, when I bought my first Ninja bundle of skin and modules- all that was required really. Plus I spent $10/mon on a piece of sh*t 3rd party Arvixe 'bargain' server for a few months (which severely slowed down my ability to work on my site BTW..they kept shutting me down!) Later when JR began to offer their own maintained server hosted plans, I quickly switched to Jamroom's Hosting plan and never looked back- where i have ever since paid only $60/mon which includes: ALL current and future JR modules(plugins), skins, speedy trouble-free server maintenance, daily automatic site backup, and cheerful fast VIP 24/7 personalized Support. I wish I could have skipped the first stupid few months where I started out on a molasses-slow Arvixe server (which promised me the moon but delivered a lump of coal, lol)- but then again way back then 2 yrs ago Jamroom didn't offer their own hosting servers yet. If I had started right off on the JR server, I wouldn't even have had to pay my initial $200.
Strumelia"
You can do your own JR install and the import of your ning content to your new site (full instructions are included), but if that seems too daunting you can choose pay to have the JR Team do all this for you- install your new site on your server and import your ning content... I think it would have cost me around $200 for a site my size, but I was allowed to skip that because I was one of the ning-import-tool Beta testers 2 yrs ago.
Starting with the Ningja skin default, I customized my site methodically myself, with frequent cheerful and patient help from the Jamroom Team concerning particular code tweaks and advise. No they won't build your site for you (you'd have to find someone to pay to do that) and if you expect to create and run your own site on ANY platform you'll need to make some ongoing effort to learn stuff. I'm still learning, and I consider myself a baby-level coder. But my site is thriving.
Here's my Jamroom site, which i made to somewhat resemble my old Ning site, as per what my members wanted from me: http://fotmd.com/ BTW there is a whole slew of brand new sleek modern skins offered on Jamroom as well now (all free with JR hosting), so you can make it look and act literally any way you like. I am Jamroom II: Premium Skins
OMG as Ceri says, so dependable and has a million better features and admin controls than my old Ning site. And I've only just scratched the surface of what I 'could' do on my site, at no extra cost mind you. There's no need to spend a lot on Jamroom.
--> If I were to migrate to Jamroom today, with my Ning 2.0/3,000 member/ 30 GB site, I would choose Jamroom HOSTING PLAN- so... with that, instead of buying each module separately (why would anyone want to do that?), I'd be paying the Jamroom Team about $200 TOTAL to archive my ning site FOR ME, import my content to my JR server, and install everything for me. After that I'd be paying $60/mon Period. With the hosting plan I'd get the platform Core, and all skins and modules/plugins for FREE, along with VIP 24/7 support. Then i'd roll up my sleeves and start designing my site with their Sitebuilder tool.
And if anyone wants to hear from the many former ning site owners who ACTUALLY migrated to Jamroom and have been getting terrific service, value, and support, don't take my or anyone else's word for it... just drop by the Jamroom customer support special Ning-to-Jamroom forum section and see for yourself the kind of hands-on support you get: https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/ning-to-jamroom
Hey to my friends over on Creators!
Just been informed that the above link to the Jamroom Skins video isn't working :( SO here is the video :)
I like the video and multi-image backgrounds - much nicer then Ning, but the skins seem very musician orientated (duh).
I run a mountain bike club site, so I need an event calendar, ability to embed Wufoo and Trailforks forms, forum, gallery, some commerce, linking to social media, and not much else. Would Jamroom work for me?
Thanks Shadow....will do :)
I am following you all's comments here very closely since I am still, daily, struggling with what to do if our members want me to close our ning site because of the price increase.
Our network is a private network for a church class. We do not invite new members unless through our class which, right now, everyone in the class are members. We don't allow anyone outside our class to join. The total number is 75. We use our site to communicate with one another with events, devotions, inspirational data, missions and immediate prayer requests 24 7. We pay the annual fee of 239.00, gladly for this much needed resource for us. We take up donations to meet that annual fee of 239.00. I have not approached the class, yet, about the new price increase....I have only discussed it with our director. We have til July 1 to make a decision but if I am going to have to find a new network, I need to start now! I am concerned that folks will feel the 588.00 will be more than we need to pay for the site, and vote to close it. Now maybe they won't but I need to be looking ahead. I love being the creator of our ning site. I am very sad I even have to think about the possibility of changing. I am not a tech person, I just loved teaching myself the ning format 10 years ago and have gotten very comfortable with updating our site. Now that I am having to look at possibly finding a new network, I am nervous.....I don't have any coding experience or professional experience as a network creator. I have to say at my age, 63 compared to 53 when I started our ning site...my brain doesn't absorb like it used to. :(
Saying all this, do you think - I appreciate any opinion, please, of me being able to successfully start on Jamroom? I actually would not have to do any migration of our network. I would be starting fresh. With only 75 members, I have all that information outside of ning.
Thank you for sharing with me any helpful information. Or even another social network that would meet our needs.
Amy
You can try some of the educational\teachers sites if your member base is small. Try searching for free teachers or church social sites. I came across this one awhile ago but never signed up. Don't know if members can have their own page...
https://www.edmodo.com/
from a Jamroom blog post: "3) The Jamroom Hosted Free Trial is now 14 days - feedback from new Jamroom users was that the 7 day trial period was just a bit too short, and that frequently the trial was over BEFORE you had a chance to really test out the system. We've upped the free trial length to 14 days now, and will send you a reminder email during that time to see if you need any help with Jamroom."
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-h...
This might just work for you?
or SocialEngine Cloud might be enough for your needs?
http://www.socialengine.com/sign-up/create-account
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My advice would be to allot a few hours, take a deep breath, and dive into free trials.
Embrace the learning curves!
Best wishes for success (and minimal 'bumps' along the way),
Holly
My Ning 2 site is also set to private for art work for all members to view with groups to learn various techniques with helpful critique given on all art if one desires. I created Art class friends in 2011 and pay monthly . ..I promised my members that it would always be free.. Now the fees will be too much for me to pay , however it is not all about the $'s it is because of the malfunctioning that has me tearing my hair out along with my members. I am staying until the 14/9/2016 though to give my members the time to down load what belongs to them... I have been a "lurker" in the past however I want to wish all of you that are here in this thread the very best of luck in finding a new home...Kay
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