How much is your web site costing?

[pastafan]

I had my web site set up years ago and I pay the developer $50/month to maintain the site. I'm not sure of what I'm getting for this fee. If I want to make changes to the web page content I email him and they are changed. I'm wondering what it normally costs for this service. I pay godaddy for the web domain.

Recently he raised his fee. I know nothing about web site development. Am I being taken for a ride or is this a reasonable arrangement?

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[lobelsteve]

1&1 Ionos has been my domain name host and server for years. $5 per month. 3 domains: www.lobelsteve.com, www.stevenlobel.com, www.alexlobel.com (kid is 13, no site yet). I used their website builder and did it myself. I can log in from phone or computer and update. I have my twitter feed on home page so if water main breaks and we need to close, I can do so on my page stat. I do need to update my site with latest insurance changes etc. Unlimited storage, email server, can even start selling T-shirts with a webstore.

 

[BobBarker]

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I had some high school classmates make me a website and they were supposed to get it hosted and set up emails. The site was done and it looked good, but took over 6 months for them to get something together. They never hosted it and never billed me and act like it never happened. The logo I am using is one they made.

 

[pocafx]

seems high. maintaining isnt doing anything if no changes

 

[hyperalgesia]

I had my web site set up years ago and I pay the developer $50/month to maintain the site. I'm not sure of what I'm getting for this fee. If I want to make changes to the web page content I email him and they are changed. I'm wondering what it normally costs for this service. I pay godaddy for the web domain.

Recently he raised his fee. I know nothing about web site development. Am I being taken for a ride or is this a reasonable arrangement?

You're not getting taken for a ride. Whether it's economical for you depends on how often you change things on the page. If it's once/year or less, you could just get a developer to build the page and you pay them on a per incident basis.

I do everything myself but it's kind of a hobby and is in no way economical. If you don't have an interest in doing it yourself, I don't think it's worth it to save about $300/year (after tax deduction). It's very easy to get sucked into a vortex with computers. One hour turns into 3 hours/day...

 

[bronchospasm]

$150 for 10 years. Go daddy.com.
They have a website builder. DIY. Did it over a weekend. That was 5 years ago. Periodically update it.

 

[Aether2000]

I also built my own; hosting cost around $60/year. I used Joomla, Wordpress, Dreamweaver, and Yahoo Sitebuilder throughout the years.