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Posted by William Tasso on July 26, 2006, 5:53 am
Please log in for more thread options Fleeing from the madness of the http://groups.google.com jungle
news:uk.net.web.authoring,alt.www.webmaster
and said:
> Imagine a small-business brochure site. Static HTML, little enough
> volume and bandwidth to not hit limits for "entry level" hosting.
> There's a registered domain name (.co.uk) and it needs to be
> "competent" for levels of quality, support etc. (i.e. no Geocities,
> frame-based redirects or http://myisp.com/~username/ URLs)
>
> What does it cost? Specifically, what does annual web hosting cost?
> I'm assuming that name reg charges are all much of a muchness these
> days (£10 / year).
That's a reasonable figure to budget with.
> Why I ask is that I've been approached yet again to host something,
> piggybacked on my own developer account, and the customer is squeaking
> that my trivial extra cost is "too much". Now I know you can get it
> cheaper (or free) but only by dealing with cowboys.
>
> So just "how cheap _is_ cheap" these days?
Allis over at mooseisloose does a starter for a one-off $5
packages for ~£50pa are quite common.
The US dollar is worth about 3 pesetas these days - cheap deals can be
found there.
> X-posted because I'm interested in UK pricing vs. world
>
FWIW: when I'm contracted to build a site (or make major upgrades) I
usually throw in the first years hosting - primarily because I don't want
any surprises from the server end of things.
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William Tasso
http://williamtasso.com/words/what-is-usenet.asp
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