Yesterday was a very difficult day for Yola and our customers. Yola’s servers were attacked unexpectedly and maliciously by as yet unknown individuals and/or groups, bringing down all of our hosted websites as well as our service provider’s entire datacenter.

The thing Yola cares about most is providing a world class service to all our customers, and doing so consistently and reliably. When our servers are attacked, your website is attacked. We don’t take this lightly. We worked around the clock to bring the service back up, and talked to you in our customer community forum, Twitter, Facebook and email during the outage to answer your questions and keep you up-to-date.

We’re posting this information on our blog now to tell you what happened, what we’re going to do about it in the future, and, most importantly, to apologize. Regardless of the reasons, your website was down. Please know that however frustrated we were with the situation, we understand you were more so. We’re very sorry.

Here’s what happened and what we plan to do about it:

Read More »Recent Yola outage: Here’s what happened

This is kind of a long post, but that’s because we’ve had a pretty big release. Based on your feedback, we’ve made some significant changes to the Sitebuilder to enhance your free website. We’ve added a few new widgets, and have updated our existing widgets to help make creating a website even easier, quicker, and more fun. Here’s what you’ll see:

WIDGET INTERACTION

Easy-to-find widgets

• The widget icons are bigger; no more squinting.
• We’ve reorganized the widget categories to make widgets easier to find. The new categories are:
  • Basic – The most commonly used widgets
  • Multimedia – For all your photo, video and music needs
  • Widget Collections – Collections of widgets offered by other companies
  • Community – Social features like chat rooms, forums, or translators
  • Forms & Appointments – Easy-to-add forms and appointment schedulers
  • Maps – Show your location on a map
  • Ecommerce – Sell products from your online store

Read More »New Look, Better Interaction, and New Widgets!

Hi everyone,

Today we released an exciting new feature that I wanted to tell you about. We’ve heard a lot of feedback from our customers that it is just too difficult to set up email for your custom domain using Gmail or Hotmail. We agree, so we got to work making that easier for you as you create your website.

We’re happy to announce the release of Yola Mail, which allows you to easily add mailboxes to your custom domain for only $9.96 per mailbox per year. There are plenty of benefits to having your own email address.

Our focus is on making it as easy as possible, removing all difficulties with setting up email for your domain. There are no additional accounts to register for, no fancy coding needed, no messing around in your domain settings. Just create a username and password, and you’re done! Here is an example of what a mailbox looks like:
Read More »Introducing Yola Mail: easy email for your custom domain