Website Costs??...
 

What all's involved in havin' a website and costs??...

I think mostly just a set-up fee, and after that you're probably looking at a monthly up keep fee. I'm not positive, but a couple of years ago my wife and I were looking to get into the cabin rental business and we looked into a website for the facilities. This was in WV, so I'm sure it'll be more expensive else where. I think it was gonna cost us about 2-3k for start up and maybe 50-100 a month for up keep. This all depends on the amount of pages you have and what kind of details and what-not.

Actually, check with your sevice provider.

I have COMCAST and a personal website comes with the service fees.

There are two fees you need to take into account.

The domain name fee, which is basically buying your name (www.wellcraftv20.com) and the hosting/storage fee.

The domain name fee is pretty damn cheap, a couple a bucks a month or a set fee per year. The hosting fee varies on the amount of storage space you need, which is drastically dependent on what you are hosting (pics or text). This also includes your bandwidth, which is the amount of traffic you will have. ie...you have a 100 megabyte webpage and the entire webpage is viewed 10 times a month you need atleast 1000 megabytes (1 Gigabyte) of bandwidth. Check out godaddy.com for rates on various plans.

Also like parish said some ISP's supply you with a hosting service and domain, although the domain will be long (myhome.comcast.net/csvencer...etc). You could use the free hosting space and buy a domain that redirects, as in svencer.com redirects you to my comcast page so I only have to pay a couple of bucks a year for the domain name and not the hosting but I still get the benefit of a simply website name.

Hope this helps more than confuses, if you have any questions fire away. I ran a page for 3 years a couple of years ago so got pretty familiar with the system.

-Svence

$10 startup fee and anywhere from $3 - $15 bucks a month Reel...what are we gonna sell?? :head: or is it one of these deals - :zip:

I KNOW WHAT IT IS!! You've bought a V-21 and decided to start:

www.wellcraftv21.com


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My wife built a site for our camellia society, up and running in about 2 months, less than $500. http://www.camelliaweb.org/
A similar site that we know has spent $50,000 for similar stuff. They are up and running after about a year. Their negotiations with different companies ranged from $35K to $150K.

A couple of others she did, don't know what she spent.
http://www.camelliashop.com/
http://thelandingsgardener.com/TLG/index.php
(I don't think she is in the "want to do more" market)

i stand corrected. My bad.

bc, I think you're as close as anyone.
It depends on what you want or expect out of a site.