Weebly is winding down in 67 countries, with published sites unpublished on January 2, 2027. Export your site and rebuild it on hosting you control, with guided help from a US-based team.
Weebly has notified its resellers that it is ending service in 67 countries. If your business is based in one of them, you will not be able to publish new sites after October 4, 2026, and your currently published Weebly sites will be unpublished on January 2, 2027. Weebly Cloud continues in 100-plus other geographies, but even there the product has been in maintenance mode for years. Either way, the safe move is to export your content now and rebuild on hosting you own.
Weebly is a hosted website builder owned by Square. Ultra Web Hosting is open hosting where every file lives on your account. Here is the side-by-side.
| Weebly (Square) | Ultra Web Hosting | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform type | Closed website builder, hosted by SquareYou build inside Weebly's editor, not on your own server | Open hosting, standard cPanelWordPress, static HTML, or any CMS you choose |
| Content ownership | Locked to the platformExport is static HTML only, one-way, cannot be re-imported | You own every file on your account |
| Availability | Winding down in 67 countriesSites unpublished Jan 2, 2027; maintenance mode elsewhere | Independently run and invested in since 2002 |
| Migration path | No automated export other platforms can importManual rebuild required | Guided migration helpWe plan it and set up WordPress with you |
| Blogging and CMS | Basic, tied to the platform | Full WordPress, any CMS |
| E-commerce | Square-only, limited data export | WooCommerce or any store you choose |
| Custom code and control | Limited; no .htaccess, no PHP versions, no cron | Full control: .htaccess, PHP versions, cron, SSH |
| Third-party upsell | Unlimited cPanel email accounts | |
| Support model | Square community and forum | 24/7 US-based, in-house |
| Free SSL | Yes | Yes (Let's Encrypt, auto-renew) |
| Renewal pricing | Set by Square | Matches your signup priceBacked by the Ultra Price Guarantee |
| Money-back guarantee | Varies by plan | 45 days |
Because Weebly is a closed builder, some pieces export cleanly and some need a rebuild. Here is the honest breakdown of what moves, and where our team steps in to help.
Your text and page layouts, captured from the Weebly archive and a full crawl of your live site. We help you lay them out on the new platform.
All uploaded images and files come across in the archive. We re-upload them into your new media library at full resolution.
The Weebly archive often only includes the blog index, so we crawl each post and recreate them so nothing is lost.
Weebly forms are tied to its backend and stop working on export. We rebuild them with a WordPress form plugin or a PHP mail script.
Product data is tied to Square, so we capture names, prices, images, and SKUs and bulk-load them into WooCommerce via CSV.
Keep your domain where it is and repoint it, or transfer the registration to Ultra with an EPP code. Search a new domain.
We map your MX, TXT, and subdomain records so email and any connected services keep working after the switch.
Free auto-renewing Let's Encrypt SSL on arrival, plus 301 redirects mapping your old Weebly URLs so your search rankings carry over.
Your Weebly site stays live while you build the new one, so your visitors never see downtime.
Download your Weebly archive from Settings > General > Archive (or Weebly Cloud Home for reseller sites), then pick a plan: Shared Web Hosting from $3.95/mo or WordPress Hosting from $9.95/mo. No setup fees.
Open a support ticket and the team helps you set up WordPress or static hosting, move your pages and images across, rebuild forms, and recreate your store. Because Weebly has no automated export, this is a guided rebuild, not a one-click transfer, and you are never doing it alone.
Once you have tested the new site, point your domain at Ultra Web Hosting and add 301 redirects so your old Weebly URLs and search rankings carry over. The team provides the exact DNS values and redirect rules. Most propagation finishes in hours.
The Weebly archive gives you static HTML, images, and assets. It does not include individual blog posts (often just the index), working contact forms, or e-commerce data, all of which are tied to Weebly's backend. Knowing this up front is why guided help matters: the team crawls what the archive misses and rebuilds the interactive pieces on your new site.
Start your migrationSome of our customers built their site on Weebly through Ultra Web Hosting. If that is you and your business is in one of the 67 affected countries, the same January 2, 2027 deadline applies to your site. The good news: you are already an Ultra customer, so moving your content onto a hosting plan on your existing account is straightforward.
Open a ticket, mention you are on Weebly through Ultra, and the team will export your site, set up WordPress or static hosting on your account, and advise on the right plan and timing. No new signup hoops, no lost content.
Open a migration ticketThe wind-down is the deadline, but these are the reasons people are glad they moved once they arrive.
On Ultra Web Hosting every file lives on your account. No more one-way export, no platform holding your site. Move it anywhere, any time.
One-click WordPress via Softaculous on WordPress Optimized Hosting, with thousands of themes and drag-and-drop page builders like Elementor for a Weebly-like editing feel.
Leaving Weebly because of lock-in? Do not trade it for another closed platform. Standard cPanel and open software mean you are never trapped again.
Live chat, phone, and tickets answered by the same engineers who run the platform. The team has been doing this since 2002, and they will guide your migration.
Your renewal price matches your signup price for the life of the account, backed by the Ultra Price Guarantee. No surprise jumps.
CloudLinux OS isolates your account so a busy neighbor never slows your site, running on hardware Ultra owns and operates in-house.
Every plan ships with free auto-renewing SSL and a Cloudflare CDN integration for global edge caching and DDoS protection. No upsell.
Your Weebly site stays live while you build. DNS only flips after you verify the new site, so your visitors never see a broken page.
Not the right fit? Full money-back guarantee within 45 days, longer than the 30 days most hosts offer. Plenty of time to be sure.
If you are a Weebly user, the wind-down notice probably brought you here, but the bigger picture is that Weebly has been coasting for years. Since Square acquired it in 2018 there have been no meaningful feature updates, and now service is ending outright in 67 countries. Moving to Ultra Web Hosting is a chance to get onto a platform that is actively developed, that you control, and that will not send you an email like this one down the road.
The move itself is a rebuild rather than a copy, because Weebly is a closed builder with no automated export other platforms can read. That sounds daunting, but our team does this with people regularly. We help you archive your Weebly content, stand up WordPress or a clean static site on your account, move your pages and images across, rebuild forms and stores, and set up 301 redirects so your search rankings survive. Guided migration help is included with any annual or longer plan; the scope of the rebuild depends on your site's size and we confirm it before any work begins.
A note on timing. If your business is in one of the 67 affected countries, your site is scheduled to be unpublished on January 2, 2027, so do not leave it to the last minute: export your Weebly archive today so you have a local copy no matter what. If you are outside those countries, there is no hard deadline, but there is also no reason to keep building on a platform in maintenance mode. Either way, your Weebly site keeps serving traffic while you build the new one, so there is no downtime risk during the transition. Want a second opinion on your specific site first? Start a live chat and one of the team will walk you through it.
Weebly is winding down in 67 countries. Weebly has told resellers that no new websites can be published from those countries after October 4, 2026, and that currently published sites for sellers based in those countries will be unpublished on January 2, 2027. Weebly Cloud continues to operate in 100-plus other geographies. Separately, Weebly as a product has been in maintenance mode for years with no meaningful feature updates since its 2018 acquisition by Square, so many owners in unaffected countries are also choosing to move to a platform they control.
If your business is based in one of the 67 affected countries, your published Weebly site is scheduled to be unpublished on January 2, 2027, which means visitors will no longer be able to reach it. Before that date you should export your site content from Weebly and rebuild it on hosting you control. Do not wait until the deadline: export your Weebly archive now so you have a local copy regardless of timing.
In the Weebly editor, go to Settings, then General, then scroll to the Archive section and click Archive Site. Weebly emails you a link to download a ZIP archive of your site's static HTML, images, and assets. Reseller and Weebly Cloud users can do this from Weebly Cloud Home by selecting the site, then Edit Site, then Settings, then General, then Archive. For a more complete copy that includes individual blog posts, also crawl your live site with a tool like HTTrack or SiteSucker. The archive is a one-way export and cannot be re-imported into Weebly.
No, and no host can, because Weebly is a closed builder with no cPanel and no automated export that other platforms can import. There is no one-click Weebly-to-WordPress importer that moves everything. What we offer instead is guided migration: our team helps you archive your Weebly content, set up WordPress or static hosting on your Ultra account, move your pages and images across, rebuild forms, transfer or repoint your domain, and set up 301 redirects so your search rankings carry over. You are never doing it alone.
Not if you export first. Your text, images, and page layouts can be captured from the Weebly archive and by crawling your live site. Some things do not export cleanly: contact forms are tied to Weebly's backend, individual blog posts are often missing from the archive, and store or e-commerce data tied to Square is limited. Our team helps you rebuild those pieces on your new site. The whole point of migrating is that once you are on Ultra Web Hosting, every file lives on your account and you own it outright.
You have two options. If your domain is registered through Weebly or Square, unlock it in your dashboard, get the authorization (EPP) code, and transfer the registration to Ultra Web Hosting or any registrar you prefer. If your domain is registered elsewhere and just points at Weebly, you only need to update its nameservers or A record to point at your new Ultra Web Hosting account. Either way the domain keeps working, and the team gives you the exact values to use.
They should not, as long as you map your old URLs to the new ones and set up 301 redirects. Weebly uses URLs like /about.html and /blog/post-title. On your new site you recreate those pages and add 301 redirects in .htaccess so old links and search engine results land on the right page. Keep your page titles and content intact, submit a new sitemap to Google Search Console, and rankings typically carry over. Our team walks you through the redirect setup as part of the guided migration.
Yes, though it is the most hands-on part of the move. Weebly e-commerce data (products, orders, customers) is tied to Square's backend and does not export cleanly. Plan to save product names, descriptions, prices, images, and SKUs. On your new site, WooCommerce on WordPress supports CSV import so you can bulk-load products from a spreadsheet rather than entering them one by one. Start this early: it is the most time-consuming piece of an e-commerce migration.
If your Weebly site was provided through Ultra Web Hosting and your business is in one of the 67 affected countries, the same January 2, 2027 timeline applies. The good news is you are already an Ultra customer, so moving to a hosting plan on your existing account is straightforward. Open a support ticket and mention that you are on Weebly through Ultra. The team will help you export your site and set up WordPress or static hosting on your account, and can advise on plan and timing.
The 67 exit countries are: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, French Polynesia, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Iceland, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Export your site, pick a plan, and open a migration ticket. The team will guide you from Weebly archive to live site on hosting you own, well before the January 2, 2027 deadline.
