Mozilla's Solo website builder shuts down on 30 November. How do you move your site?

Is Mozilla's Solo shutting down?

Yes. Solo, Mozilla's AI website builder for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs, "will cease operations on Nov 30, 2026". Registrations are already closed. Solo's shutdown FAQ says all websites and data will be deleted on that date, and "there will be no way to recover your site, account, or data after that date."

Refunds are automatic. Solo says active Pro and Grow subscribers get the unused part of their current billing period back on their original payment method, with nothing to do.

That leaves four weeks. The export and the domain have a hard deadline. The new site does not, as long as you have saved everything first.

How do I export my website from Solo?

Log in at soloist.ai/designer, open the menu at the top right, choose Account Settings and click Download Website Data. You receive a ZIP file with:

• an HTML export of your website
• a CSV file with links to your image assets
• your contact form and newsletter submissions

The catch is the images. Solo says image source files are not in the ZIP. You have to download each image yourself from the links in the CSV before 30 November. If your site has 40 photos of your work, that is the slow part, so start with it.

Your form and newsletter submissions are leads and subscribers. Open that file, check it is complete and save it where your team can find it.

What happens to my domain when Solo closes?

It depends on where you bought it.

• Bought through Solo Domains: Solo asks you to move it to its domain partner, Name.com. Create a Name.com account, fill in the Registrant, Administrative and Technical contacts, copy the Account Code from the top right of the dashboard and email it to Solo support. Solo transfers the domain and emails you when it is done. Then add billing details at Name.com so it renews.
• Bought through IONOS: Solo's FAQ excludes these from the Name.com move and says nothing more. Check your IONOS account, and ask Solo support if you are unsure.
• Bought elsewhere and connected to Solo: the domain is already yours. After 30 November it will point at a site that no longer exists, so update its DNS records to your new host on launch day.

Solo's FAQ does not mention Solo's own subdomains. If your site only ever lived on a Solo address, plan for a new domain, and buy one you control.

Where should you move a Solo website?

Solo's FAQ names Wix, Squarespace and WordPress as popular website hosts, and Bolt and Lovable as AI website builders. The table below is our advice, not Solo's. Choose by what the site has to do next year, not by which tool feels most like Solo.

The last row matters more than it did a year ago. Solo is not the only builder to close on its customers this year: Weebly is leaving the UAE, Saudi Arabia and 65 other countries (see our Weebly guide). For a three-page site, a coded build can still be more than you need. Our Framer vs Webflow vs Next.js comparison covers the trade-offs, and the website cost calculator gives you a quick budget.

If the Solo site was never bringing in enquiries, do not copy it page for page. A website design project starts from what each page needs to say and what the visitor should do next.

How do I keep my Google rankings when I leave Solo?

Treat it as a site move. Google's guidance gives you the checklist:

1. 1List every page address on your Solo site. The HTML export and Google Search Console help.
2. 2Map each old address to its matching new page, not everything to the home page.
3. 3If any addresses change, add permanent server-side redirects (301 or 308) from old to new.
4. 4Keep the redirects for at least about a year.
5. 5Submit a sitemap of the new pages in Search Console. If the domain changes too, use the Change of Address tool.

Keeping the same domain makes all of this much easier, which is one more reason to sort the domain first. Our website migrations service covers exactly this: a URL inventory, one-to-one redirects and an SEO check after launch.

Worked example: a consultant with a 5-page Solo site

This is a hypothetical scenario, not a client. A freelance bookkeeper built her site on Solo: 5 pages, 12 images, a contact form, and a .com bought through Solo Domains.

1. 1Today: export. She clicks Download Website Data and saves the ZIP in two places.
2. 2Today: save the images. She opens the CSV and downloads all 12 images into a named folder.
3. 3Today: save the leads. She copies the form submissions into her CRM or a spreadsheet.
4. 4This week: move the domain. She opens a Name.com account, completes all three contact records and emails her Account Code to Solo support.
5. 5Week 2: choose the platform. She edits the site twice a year and may add a blog later, so she shortlists Framer and Webflow.
6. 6Weeks 2 to 3: rebuild. She rebuilds the 5 pages from the export, sets up a new contact form and tests that it reaches her inbox.
7. 7Before 30 November: switch. She points the domain's DNS to the new site, keeps the same page addresses where she can, redirects any that changed and submits the new sitemap.

The order is the point. Steps 1 to 4 have a hard deadline. Everything after them can slip a week without losing anything.

Can Theepa help move a Solo website?

Yes. Our website migrations team moves sites between platforms with the redirects in place, and our website design team can rebuild the site itself. If you want the brand refreshed at the same time, see Brand + Website.

Sources

• Solo will be closing down (Solo, accessed 2 November 2026)
• Solo Shutdown FAQ (Solo Support, accessed 2 November 2026)
• Solo product page (Mozilla New Products, accessed 2 November 2026)
• Site moves with URL changes (Google Search Central, updated 20 August 2026)