My wife has to draw up a business and operational plan for a small - animal related - enterprise for her HND (Animal Care) course. She's decided on breeding Bengal cats. This is just part of her assignment and it's not going to be carried out (I don't think so anyway!) but can anyone give me an estimate of the costs that would be involved for someone to design a simple website and get it hosted? I know nothing about this sort of thing, and it's just for budget purposes. Thanks guys.
Cost of website and hosting -
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There are numerous options:
You can get free websites from such as Wix, Weebly or Yola, where the site is hosted on their servers.
Buy a domain name, co.uk is approx £10 for two years; hosting, approx £50 for one year; download Wordpress (or similar), free; obtain extra template (rather than use Wordpress built-in ones), free or pay anything from £30 to £100.
Obviously there are more expensive options, such as getting a bespoke site designed and hosted, not sure what the going rate is these days - could run into the hundreds.
You can get free websites from such as Wix, Weebly or Yola, where the site is hosted on their servers.
Buy a domain name, co.uk is approx £10 for two years; hosting, approx £50 for one year; download Wordpress (or similar), free; obtain extra template (rather than use Wordpress built-in ones), free or pay anything from £30 to £100.
Obviously there are more expensive options, such as getting a bespoke site designed and hosted, not sure what the going rate is these days - could run into the hundreds.
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my renewal was approx £60, thats for 2 domains (.com and .co.uk) and pro level hosting if that helps.
then you have to factor in design, are you going to do it all yourself? use a free template system or purchased. do you have design software if applicable and need to buy that?
then you have to factor in design, are you going to do it all yourself? use a free template system or purchased. do you have design software if applicable and need to buy that?
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From £250 for a simple web page (3 pages or so) to be designed and anywhere from £0 up to £100 a year for the hosting, depending on how much of that work you wish to do yourself.
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Simple being how many pages? Gallery?
Base it on 3 pages: Front, about and contact then I would be charging £170 design + hosting around the £15 PA mark for a low bandwith site + 2yrs DN with Heart £6
So you're looking at £200-£225 for 2 years worth.
Base it on 3 pages: Front, about and contact then I would be charging £170 design + hosting around the £15 PA mark for a low bandwith site + 2yrs DN with Heart £6
So you're looking at £200-£225 for 2 years worth.
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Some thoughts as I'm just going through the same process:
HTH
- Buy your domain name separate from your web hosting. It is easy to point your web domain to any hosting company. Having them separate allows more flexibility
- Unless you run a high b/w site, it's unlikely you'll fall foul of the unlimited web hosting sites. I use unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk. I'm not going to get into an argument WRT "unlimited" hosting, but they seem to be doing OK for the moment. £3.30/month and I can host as many domains as I like on the one account.
- Don't forget to budget for a dedicated IP if you want to run SSL (secure site with https://)).
- When judging a hosting service, probe it's tech support. You need good and quick responses.
- If you have any ability at all with computer systems, you can probably design/maintain yourself. I am building a shop from PrestaShop and it has taken me 2 weeks to get it from default to how I like the look. I wouldn't even have the page if I'd written from scratch
HTH
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What does it mean when it talks about Linux, I know this is an alternative operating software but does it mean I can't use it on my Mac or PC?
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indeed. generally itll use a graphical cpanel web interface so doesnt matter what platform you run on your computer.
arad85 said:
Linux is better because it is free and relatively simple. As websites get more complex and you head to large dedicated or multiple servers, the benefits of Microsoft tools start to shine and the limitations of the tools on linux start to show.
For 99% of home user and small businesses, Linux will be the best.
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I think what you mean is that the more you use MS tools to generate websites, the more dependent upon the MS technology you become
You can write extremely complex CMS/web systems with an SQL server and (for example) php.
All depends on what is needed. I do web site design and dev but factoring in the time to meet the client, listen to their thoughts on the how and why then work on a plan of how things should work, sketch mock ups, write copy, product wireframe/photoshop layouts then convert into a proper website costs a fair bit for my time.
Suppose its like Ford and Ferrari, both get you to the shops but one does it with more style
Suppose its like Ford and Ferrari, both get you to the shops but one does it with more style
arad85 said:I think what you mean is that the more you use MS tools to generate websites, the more dependent upon the MS technology you become
You can write extremely complex CMS/web systems with an SQL server and (for example) php.
You will hit the limits of MySQL, where as MS SQL is only just starting to get warmes up. Postgres will give you more than my, but still not compared to MS.