Is Weebly No Longer Offer Free Website Builder And Hosting?

Important update regarding Weebly Site and Custom Domain.

Are you a user and website owner using Weebly Website Builder? Did you know that Weebly has released a new update regarding free accounts with published websites? Here is the email I received from them.

"This is an official notification from the Weebly account team in regards to the account under this email address.

You currently have a free Weebly website published on a custom domain (or vanity URL) and are not subscribed to a paid Weebly hosting plan. As of March 14, 2023, sites connected to custom domains are required to have a Weebly hosting service plan to remain published.

What does this mean for you?

To keep your site published on a custom domain, you will need to purchase a paid Weebly service plan subscription. If you take no action and choose to remain on a free Weebly plan, your account information and all associated site content will remain intact and accessible to you within Editor, but your site will be unpublished on March 14, 2023 and will no longer be visible to visitors or connected to your custom domain. You will need to republish your site on a free Weebly subdomain to make it publicly visible again (ex: my-name.weebly.com).

Here’s what you can do next:

• To keep your site published on a custom domain, select and purchase a paid Weebly service plan >
• To keep your site published and remain on the free plan, republish your site to a Weebly subdomain > (click “edit” in your domain settings)

​Note: If you don’t take any action by March 14, 2023 your site will be unpublished from your custom domain and will no longer be publicly visible online."

So if you own a free account on Weebly and you want to publish it using your domain name, you should avail of any plan they have.

What are the available Weebly plans that I can avail of?