You’ll start to see the name BitBalloon vanish from emails and bills that we send you.
We have partnered with Let’s Encrypt to help us offer this automatically, and free for all customers. This is an important step towards securing your site and unlocking access to better performance and confidence for your users. Free HTTPS to secure your sitesĪ feature that Netlify users have been enjoying, and that we have been very keen to bring to all BitBalloon customers, is the provision of free digital certificates for serving your sites over HTTPS. You can even buy new domains directly from us and make the setup of new sites with custom domains easier than ever before. You’ll be able to point your own registered domains to your sites without paying us an additional fee. We are very excited to announce that this feature will now be free for all new and existing customers. Many BitBalloon customers have been paying a monthly fee to assign custom domains to their sites. You’ll also notice that will no longer be the address to visit - instead you’ll want to go to /drop (and we’ll redirect you, if you forget). Fear not, that simple process of dragging and dropping to deploy will not change, but things will look a little different. The bright and familiar BitBalloon site, with its drag-and-drop deployment page, will be replaced with a new page called Netlify Drop. But we think you’re going to love the changes. What will change?Ī few things will look different. By bringing BitBalloon into the Netlify family we will be able to make better use of the infrastructure that builds and serves your sites, provide better service and support, and even help you make use of more advanced hosting features (if you decide later that you’d like that). We are delighted by how many people have been able to deploy their sites with BitBalloon over the years, and we’re determined to keep that process as simple as it ever was.īut we are also committed to providing the best possible service and features to our customers. Netlify Drop is the natural evolution of BitBalloon, which has been providing simple drag-and-drop website deployments for years.Įxisting BitBalloon customers will enjoy the same ability to quickly get their sites live on the web, but will now also have access to the more powerful features and benefits of Netlify. Today we are delighted to announce the launch of Netlify Drop - the simplest way to get started hosting a site on the web.