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I know there are some Gurus on here. How much would I need to spend to set up and host a website? Where would be a good place to look at realistic costs? Thanks in advance.
Bit like asking how much does a bike cost I'm afraid - too many factors involved to be able to answer without a wee bit more detail:
- What's it for? A business site should have a lot more thought and effort put in that say, a personal blog or club site.
- What do you need it to do? Let you manage content, sell products, take bookings etc?
- What do you have already to work with? An old site, content, images, logo etc? Do you need these things as part of the job?
For a rough example, something like this site? I have no legacy site so what would it cost to set up something like STW?
[quote=uphillcursing]For a rough example, something like this site? I have no legacy site so what would it cost to set up something like STW?
Brace yourself, all those gremlins arent cheap!!
[i]uphillcursing wrote:[/i]
For a rough example, something like this site? I have no legacy site so what would it cost to set up something like STW?
Do you want it to be as fast as this site, or just have all the broken functionality?
Slightly more helpfully, for typical commercial hosting costs have a look at
https://uk.godaddy.com/ - I'm not using their website hosting (we have our use of servers through a partner company, but they host our domains) , but they're a standard cheapish B2B provider.
Answer Jamesmios Qs and then it'll be easier to advise.
The hosting is such a small part of what you're trying to achieve, but as we're talking about that- DigitalOcean is cheap and reliable. To select the right specs, you need to know some of the following; use this article for a basic view.
- Are you planning on building and managing this yourself or are you looking to outsource the build?
- If it needs public exposure, have you got a marketing plan in place and ideas for SEO?
- Will you be using a coding language to build or a template/wordpress?
- What CSM are you planning on using (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal or ...)?
There are so many more questions, but these might help.
Feel free to ping me an email, I do this everyday.
Just as an example, I've done a couple of self-builds with WordPress in the last year or so.
The cost was probably about £25 to £30 each for domain & hosting. I use TSO Host and as a non-techy I found their support staff very helpful.
If you're talking quite a large site like this, you probably want to speak to the developers and discuss the specific requirements of the hosting before anything else.
It really is a piece of string. For a small personal, or even business site, the hosting might set you back £2.50 per month.
If you want your own virtual server you might be looking at £30 per month.
But if you want a fully managed and dedicated server with the service to match, you'll be getting into £100s per month.
Depends on what kind of performance/storage you need and how important uptime is.
Have personally worked in more than one agency using Fasthosts for client sites in the past and found them helpful and reasonably priced, but I've not dealt with hosting for a while now.
Currently using TSOHost for personal stuff.
[i]butcher wrote:[/i]
If you want your own virtual server you might be looking at £30 per month.
It's doable for way less than that. Though from the limited requirements given I doubt the OP even needs that (I know something like this would, but you tend to know if you require that).