How much does a website cost?
Usually when you think to get a new website this question be the first to think about.
For sure the website budget has a limit and you want to see if the website will cost you what’s your budget can allow or not, and the problem many people face is they won’t find fixed prices for the websites as they may find for many other products!
I’ll show you how to can calculate the website cost and take an estimated value, and first I will let you know the costs included in the website cost.
Generally the website cost contains 3 kinds of costs:
1- The Damian Name cost
The domain name is one of the basic and important things of the website, it’s more than name of the website and from the things you should care much before choosing.
the cost of the domain name usually be from 4$ and don’t have a real limit, the price varies greatly according to the domain extension and if it’s taken or not, and also the company or the website who you will buy from.
but generally if you will buy “.com” domain extension the price will be between 10$:13$
and you should remember that you will pay the domain name fees yearly.
2- The Web Hosting cost
After you buy the domain or decide which domain you will pay then you should think about the web hosting, the server disk space that you will buy to upload your website files to, and it’s a must to have web hosting and domain name to can have website!
as the domain name the web hosting price varies greatly according to more factors, because there are the disk space and the amount of bandwidth and how many databases is allowed and many other things that you don’t know most of them, for this it’s better to let the web designer who will create the site help you in this.
The average cost of web hosting can be from 3$:7$ per month, you pay them yearly.
And usually the web agency or the web designer who you will ask to create your website is who buy the domain name and the web hosting of you to save your time and also they know well how and where to buy this stuff better than you, but you should be aware of how this things can cost you.
3- The Web Design and Programming cost
The biggest part of the website cost is the fees of the web design and programming, either if you will hire a freelancer or an agency but for sure the cost will be higher if you will ask an agency to do it for you, this is logical but it doesn’t mean that they can do it better than the freelancer, it’s depend on the skills and experience of the freelancer and the stuff of the agency!
for this you should first see the website of the agency or the freelancer and see their previous work, this is will give you good idea about in which stage they are in and if their price fits what’s they will do.
Also the location of the freelancer or agency will impact on the price, for sure what’s an agency in Los Angeles or Paris will ask will be higher than any agency in a small European city or who in East Europe or Middle East!
for this the high price of some agencies doesn’t mean it will do it better than the others but for life cost of the place they are in they have to ask for a higher price.
Usually the cost of the web design and programming be from 300$ if you will hire a freelancer and from 500$ if you will hire an agency, and no limit for it as some websites be so huge and have many futures that takes months from the developers to do.
Now I think you become have good idea about how the website can cost you and what’s the factors that control it, you can expect how it will cost before asking the web designer or the agency, and also notice that there are another additional costs for another services you can choose to get like the SEO and E-Marketing.
