The Cost of Putting Your Business on the Internet!
There are basically four levels of costs involved is having a website -
1. Domain Name registration – while some companies still charge upwards of a $100 per year to register a domain name, $20 is more reasonable.
2. The Cost of Hosting a website – for someone to access your webpages, your pages have to be available somewhere on the internet, which means they have to exist on a computer somewhere. There are companies that provide such a service and they are called ISP’s (Internet Service Providers). Costs have come down in recent years and service reliability has gone up. While some ISP’s still charge high prices it is not necessarily a matter of getting what you paid for. You can get a excellent service for less than $200 per year. Of course, the more space you require, the more the cost.
3. Web Design – web site design can get to be very expensive. How much – well it’s basically as much as you want to pay. Some companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for a web side design. But the simple matter is – simple is better and simple is less expensive.
4. Web maintenance – this is the ongoing expense, the one that never ends, the one that is so hard to budget, and in defence, what you see is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the re-programming and testing necessary to add an apparently simple change.
So what’s the alternative?
We can offer domain registration, low cost web hosting, a professionally designed website that is virtually maintenance free for less $500. When we say “maintenance free” we mean, you make your own changes and therefore you control your costs.
Give us a call at 905 / 592-1962