This is an important announcement for all of Bravenet's Free Hosting Members.

Dear Bravenet Member,

We have come to a time where we need to better define our Free Hosting services. With millions of members building free, ad-supported sites at Bravenet, we have been buying tons of hardware to store, backup and serve all of your sites to the world. In fact, it has been hard to keep up with all the storage required!

While most of you use Bravenet's Free Hosting for what we designed it for - getting started in creating personal websites - we have found that quite a few members are also using it for mass storage of images and files... not really what it was intended for. As you may well imagine, for millions of members, it can get very costly to store and back-up so much data for free.

As a result, we have decided that it is time to better define what Free Hosting is for, and set appropriate new limits to cater to what a free website really needs. Of course, we know that there are those members that require more storage, and we have created a special deal just for those of you that need all that storage!

At first we were going to create a special storage package, but then we thought: "Why not just give them the best of everything?" Since our Professional Hosting service is already set up for tons of storage, and it offers so much more on top, we decided to set up a special deal for all of our Free Hosting members.

And here it is...
For a limited time (until October 31, 2009), we are offering you, as a valued Bravenet member, our 1,2 and 5 year Professional Hosting service for only $3.99 per month when you pay for at least a year (our regular fees are: $12/month or $99/year). If you want to really take advantage of this low price, you can sign up for 2 years, or even 5, and lock in the special price long-term!

Bravenet's Professional Hosting includes:

• a personalized domain name (such as www.mycoolsite.com)
• unlimited email accounts under your domain (such as fred@mycoolsite.com)
• tons of storage for all your photos, videos, music, files, etc.
• huge allowance for monthly bandwidth
• PHP and MySQL for all you programmers
• no advertising on your sites and all ad-free web tools
• online marketing and advertising credits to build traffic
• access to hundreds of thousands of premium images in our image library
• and so much more!

Effective September 15, 2009 your Free Hosting package limit will be decreased to 5MB of storage. Remember, our free hosting is meant for a basic website and we feel these new limits best reflect what small starter sites require. Many of you use much less, and will not be at all affected. All users below the new 5MB storage limit can continue to be supported by advertising and nothing changes.

Now, if you need more disk space and you also want to remove all of the ads on your site, then we really encourage you to take advantage of Bravenet's Upgrade Special (exclusive to our Free Hosting Members) and enjoy Professional Web Hosting at Bravenet.com.

But you have to act soon, as we will be modifying the limits on September 15th, 2009. Use the Exclusive Coupon Code below at the time of checkout, and the pricing on the page will change for the 1, 2 or 5 year plans. You will see the price on the page change to the equivalent of $3.99 per month ($47.88 per year) when the coupon code is entered.

How much is the savings? Well, if you paid the regular month by month fees of $12, over the course of a year, this coupon will save you a whopping $96.12! But only if you use the coupon code!

And one final note, if you are finding HTML troubling and would like to start building a new website from the ground up (your Bravenet files will not transfer) we welcome you to use our New Website Builder at Viviti.com. Viviti is our brand new, drag & drop website builder and content manager. It requires no HTML code knowledge and no FTP. It is on-site editing at its best! For those of you that want to build your website at Viviti.com, the same promo code applies and you will get a Professional Viviti website for 20% off of the regular price (regular pricing starts at $5 per month).

We at Bravenet are proud to have over 10 million members enjoying our services, and we are always working to put out not only the best services, but the best support and, of course, offering both for the best prices. We are confident that the new Free Hosting limits reflect well for the purpose of the Free Hosting Member. For those that need more, we encourage you to take advantage of this special, and to enjoy a year or more of Professional Hosting for a fraction of the regular price.

Thank you for being a part of Bravenet.

Best regards always,
The Bravenet Team

Got questions? We have answers!

Q. What will happen to my existing free site on September 15?

A. If you are using less then 5MB of storage on your site, then nothing will happen to your existing site. You don't need to change a thing if you don't want to. However, if you are currently using more than 5MB of storage you will need to either upgrade by September 15th or delete excess files. Bravenet's Professional Hosting service allows for all the storage you need.

Q. How do I upgrade my hosting?

A. Log into your Bravenet account. Click 'upgrade' under Web Hosting. Select Bravehost or Viviti (the promo code will work at both sites). Make sure to enter the coupon code at checkout!

Q. Why is Bravenet doing this?

A. Some users are using Bravenet's Free Hosting for storage. Our Free Hosting is intended to allow people from all over the world, to build a basic website and get started in creating an online presence. Free Hosting is supported by advertising, and mass file storage is not. By modifying the storage limit, most users will not be affected, and users that need more space really should be upgrading to Professional Hosting as the fees associated with it cover the costs of the additional storage.

Q. How do I find out how much disk space I am currently using?

A. Log into your Bravenet account. Under the Web Hosting area you will see your current Disk Space usage.

Q. How long do I have to decide what to do with my site?

A. On September 15th your free hosting storage limit will be decreased to 5MB.

Q. Is the 5MB total or for each site?

A. The 5MB storage limit is total and applies to all of your websites (combined) on your account.

If you have any questions our customer support team will be happy to help you.

You can visit our support center at: http://support.bravenet.com