What is the annual cost of maintaining a website?
Take away development and design costs, once your website is up and running, how much money does it cost to maintain the website? Right now I am looking into Amazon Web Services. Also, what costs make up the annual charge?
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Sep 18, 2019
Below is a list of components and stages of work that affect the cost of the site:
Hosting
Domain
Design
Layout
Implementation
Programming
Testing
The cost of hosting services at the beginning of 2019 starts at $20 per year and depends on the resource intensity of your site.
The cost of a domain name depends on the domain zone (.com, .ru, .com.ua, etc.) and starts at $5 per year.
We believe that good design starts at $250. Development period from 1 week.
In general, the layout cost starts at $40 per page. Development period from 1 week.
The cost of implementing, programming and testing the site depends on the complexity and the amount of work at these stages, and even making an approximate calculation is difficult. However, if you need a regular information site or a simple online store, then the cost of these steps can cost about $100 each. The development time is from 2-3 weeks. Now we will calculate all the stages and in total, we get an approximate minimum threshold for the development of the site at $500-600. If the cost of the site is lower than announced, the probability of getting a low-quality product is growing exponentially.
My last project, Ipayzz, cost me a total of about $800.
According to the standard, the cost of SEO promotion consists of 3 components:
1. Specialist services (teamwork on the project - pay for the hour).
2. Costs of purchasing links and advertising.
3. Connection of paid resources, analytics services.
This is the base. If a component drops out of the chain, you will save, but lose a faster and longer-lasting result. So in the future, it is better to save on other points.
Depending on the site, the promotion and maintenance of the site are about $1,000.
Jul 27, 2019
Why you should maintain/update website very frequently.
A website with higher update frequency has a higher possibility of ranking on Major Search Engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing) because search engines prefer fresh and updated websites to index.
Updating the website every now and then attracts visitors to re-visit your website. It creates the right up-to-date impression of your business and website.
It also creates a good influence on the organization and updates website communicates with their audiences.
Website maintenance includes two main categories:
1. Design upgrades
2. Technical upgrades
Design upgrades include website design improvements that boost sales and highlight special offers. These design upgrades could include:
A website redesign
Special offer or event banners
Discount program banners
Website navigation redesign
A new website blog section, video section, or store
Addition of new products or services to the website
Technical upgrades include changes to your website that keep your website healthy, safe, and risk-free. Typical technical upgrades include:
Website hack recovery support
Malware recovery support
Website security and CMS upgrades
Website performance optimization
SEO performance optimization and monitoring
Website testing
Daily website backups
Dec 20, 2017
It all depends on the type of website and what you want to get from it. Anyway, I recommend you to contact the website design service from https://weblium.com for some details and help with it. I think you will like working with them, it is my favorite company, honestly
Aug 3, 2017
Hi,
Maintenance cost is depends on your website. On a cheaper side, a normal responsive website takes only $50-$70 in an year with shared hosting, domain and SSL. If you need more bandwidth, space and space, you have to go for higher options. Amazon is a good option, but cheaper options are there.
Best regards,
Sreejith
Floges Software Solutions
www.flogesoft.com
Jul 11, 2017
Maintaining a website depends on a hosting plan you are going with and on a platform you are using. Personally I use free Wordpress themes along with free GoDaddy hosting, so I pay only for domain. Here is a good web design resource you can use https://www.templatemonster.com/blog/40-free-material-design-resources-for-designers/ . I find it incredibly useful.
Jun 20, 2017
It depends upon primarily 2 factors - the size of the site and the amount of time it would require to maintain the same. One one hand one can say maintenance can be zero in cases where you dont need any changes and additions / deletions once all of your pages are optimized. on the other hand even if you dont make any changes in your pages, you might need to post blogs and on social media regularly. I would say that one blog a month would be the bare minimum for any site and at least 2 or 3 posts on social media per week respectively. such posts are either sharing others posts or sharing something from your own site. but then there are people who write blogs and post on social media daily and just require optimization of their blog posts. normally optimization of blogs falls under the category of maintenance. of course there is nothing such as optimization of social media posts. all you can do is post in such a way initially, which creates the maximum impact. having said that if one considers a normal scenario where some changes in pages and some blog posts and some social media posts are required every month, then the maintenance cost could be anywhere between 200 to 1000 dollars per month, depending upon the profile of the maintenance service provider. then one can cover so many other things like updations on webmaster accounts, creation of new content in the form of videos, slideshows etc. that all fall in the category of maintenance that no one can really quote a specific fee for maintenance unless one knows what all is required by the client. does the client require only On-page maintenance or Off-page maintenance too ? are there daily changes like price and stock updations on pages or only once a month ? basically the number of factors can be endless.
Jun 20, 2017
Once the site is running you only need to pay hosting and domain renewal. If your site is made with wordpress and features plugins then sometimes you need to pay for updates of these plugins.
Jun 20, 2017
Hi Fran
So you would like to know, How much does it cost to maintain a website?
I hate it when answers start with “It depends". But it depends.
Normally it's cheap. But there are many factors that affect the price of a webpage.
Here is the list of expenses you should consider while calculating the cost to maintain a website.
Ongoing costs to maintain a website include domain renewal, hosting, backups, license fees (if applicable), software updates and site maintenance. I'll cover each of these areas in this post.
Web Address renewal:
This is a small one in terms of cost, but it is of extreme importance. If your website and URL are new, you had to purchase the web address through a provider like GoDaddy, Network Solutions, etc.
Hosting:
There are a myriad of hosting options available. The same companies that can develop your website also offer hosting. The cost for this also range from very inexpensive (for smaller sites in many cases it's less than $10) to somewhat expensive (hundreds of dollars per month and up). The range has to do with the size of your audience (web traffic) and the (literal) size and complexity of your site.
Backups :
This is an area many companies don't think about until it's too late. It's ALWAYS a good idea to have your entire website backed up frequently, and a further suggestion is to have it backed up in a separate location from where your site is currently hosted.
License Fees / Software:
Unless you have a site that is built in pure HTML/CSS, you are going to have some type of software that facilitates some functionality. Even popular open-source CMS (content management systems) like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal require downloads of software and certain types of servers to function properly.
Software updates / Site maintenance:
There are many software and plug-ins which require updates and maintenance.
There can be many more factors (databases, firewalls,dedicated ip's, designers programmers, etc...) but to give a big picture I think this should be enough.
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May 20, 2016
Depends on how you build and host your website. I have one which I built with the help of http://www.webstarts.com/designs free website builder. It costs me less than 50 dollars annually for hosting and domain. It is not really price, I guess.
Apr 28, 2016
Hi Fran!
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I paid for making the website and implement the system once, and I do not pay anything more, because it is so easy to use this system and I can control it from any part of the world. I recommend the company that made it for me, please ask if you are interested.
Mar 30, 2016
Hello, Fran! To build my website, I used the MotoCMS 3.0 web builder. The whole process was as easy as ABC. I paid once and no more any payments forever. To get to know more, visit, please http://www.templatemonster.com/moto-cms-3-templates.php . Good luck in your business!
Mar 24, 2016
Hello Fran - based on my experience dealing with 100+ web firms across Canada you are safe to say that it will cost 10% of the website build cost and that it`s an annual expense to keep the site up to date - especially plug ins! You will get some web firms to offer a bank of hours like prepaid phones i.e. if you need their help they charge by the hour and if you don`t the unused hours dry up. Some allow you to carry them over. Hope this helps.
Mar 22, 2016
Most small websites should not be paying more than around $10/year for a domain and $50/year in hosting. Unfortunately, this is a field where simple costs are dramatically marked up by local consultants and service providers. In my opinion, there is no reason to pay a middleman for either of these two services, unless you're really uncomfortable with managing the WYSIWIG/backend of a web hosting account. They are incredibly straightforward, though.
If your site revolves around bandwidth-heavy objects like videos (and you anticipate your site having a lot of constant activity on a daily basis), Amazon S3 is a great but more complicated option - otherwise, there's no reason not to use a low-cost web host.
Mar 21, 2016
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Mar 19, 2016
Domain is about $12-25/yr usually. Hosting varies depending on the type of set-up you need. If you want a dedicated server, which is important for sites with large amounts of traffic or large media files. Shared hosting, where you're sharing a server with other sites, is often more affordable but carries certain risks with it and isn't a great fit if you need lightning fast load time and expect thousands or millions of visitors each month.
Other costs to factor:
- cost of updates to your theme if you can't make these yourself. Sometimes if you buy a theme off of a website like thememonster, the new release of the theme may break your current setup and then you'll have to pay a developer to fix it. This isn't as much of an issue with a custom theme.
- cost of backup plugin ($5-10/mo for a good one, there are free ones available as well)
- cost of additional widgets/features such as wistia (which is a video embedding player) or sumo me (which features many options to build your email list, track traffic sources, heat maps, etc), as well as integrations such as salesforce, mailchimp, etc.
If you host your website through a builder such as weebly or squarespace, or shopify for ecommerce, you only pay the monthly hosting fee, and then any additional plugins you want to use.
I always encourage clients to look at their site like a car - you need oil changes, tire rotations, tune-ups, and you should budget accordingly. Hope this helps! Happy to answer other questions if needed!
Mar 18, 2016
Hello Fran,
If you are looking for website maintenance services then you may check these various website maintenance services offered by FATbit Technologies. It includes
Updating the text, photos
Creating small icons/graphics for better text presentation
Improving existing pages presentation style
Creating flash icons/banners
Creating additional pages for existing website
Changing existing web page layout
Changing/updating background image
Layout changes using tables
and much more. Find more details here: http://www.fatbit.com/website-design-company/affordable-website-maintenance-plans.html
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An intuitive interface
A highly secure system
Multi vendor capabilities
Multiple stores for those vendors
Real time shipping cost calculator
All orders are split and consolidated for shopping carts with products from multiple vendors
Most SEO is completely automated
Divide customer into groups based on buying behavior
an Android app
Find more details here: http://www.yo-kart.com/
Hope this helps :)
Mar 17, 2016
I am going to start by exactly answering your question then will add a bit. If I had a website up and running I would expect to spend about $ 15.00 a year to keep the domain name registered and I would expect to spend about $ 10.00 a month for hosting. Hosting can be under $ 5.00 or quite a bit higher if your site is attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors a day which most sites don't.
That pricing is assuming you can manage and update your site yourself which even with WordPress is easy and quick.
Mar 16, 2016
Hi Fran
As Scott has mentioned it depends on what type of website you have.
If you use any CMS like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal, you need to consider they need upgrading just like your Windows or Apple operating system. You have security updates, enhancement, etc, on all your elements including the core (WP, Joomla, Drupal) as well as your Theme, Plugins, etc. See my write up on WordPress under Tools on mosaichub website.
Of course you can do this yourself but it does mean you have to go through a learning process, back up, restore, etc. So if you have the time to learn and execute these yourself then there is no cost other than hosting. For example we offer our clients self-managed WordPress or Joomla hosting from €60 per year or Fully Managed Hosting which includes CMS updates, Theme Updates, Plugin Updates, Content Update, etc from €240 per year. You can shop around to see what else is available but you need to be able to compare like for like.
If you are using Static HTML website then there is really no ongoing cost although the cost of creating a bespoke HTML design or site is much higher than CMS based website to start with (usually at least double the price). In HTML type website you just need to consider hosting.
If you have a bespoke PHP or bespoke WordPress or Joomla sites with e-commerce, etc. then you need to also maintain your software up to date. We typically charge 20%-25% of the original development cost for annual software maintenance.
Other things you need to consider are:
1. Domain renewal costs
2. SSL certificate (that of course is not necessary for website that do not need financial transaction)
3. Content Update – Websites are not a static entity. Any website with old content will fall off the radar on Search Engines so you need to have a plan for Content Refresh in place. This is why CMS based websites are so popular as you can add, change, edit content yourself. With static HTML or bespoke PHP site this not as possible unless you have PHP and HTML knowledge. You need to set aside money for this.
I hope this helps.
Mar 16, 2016
Outside the labour and expertise costs, the hosting site is negligible. It is only if your site is high traffic site with rich content do you need to invest more into the server side accordingly.
Mar 16, 2016
Fran: The answer depends on what the website does or is being used for. A basic WordPress site can be run on a managed hosting platform like GoDaddy for <$180 per year which includes everything necessary for the website to operate. You can use free or low cost themes ($0 - $99 one-time cost) and free or low-cost plug-ins to add functionality. Even storing content on AWS such as video is pennies. The annual cost today for a WordPress site is so small for most businesses it's not material in their budget. Where costs can run up is for marketing automation solutions, advertising, and the like.