website hosting
Establishing a New Website
All prices AUS$ - approx US$0.70 per AUS$
High quality website hosting need not be expensive. In fact, price is no guarantee of quality. I have known of web hosts charging $500 per year and NOT including any extras, no PHP or ASP scripting, no Perl-CGI, no databases. All the customer could have was a brochure type website. Extremely POOR value.
I use and recommend Value Hosting Australia. Have a look at what they offer - pretty much everything a small business or individual could want. Their basic web hosting package ($129.95) is suitable for any medium sized website. A large or graphic intensive site would need to consider their standard or premium packages, which are still much better value than most web hosts offer.
In keeping with the personal service philosophy, Value Hosting Australia is managed by a small team of professionals who deal with all enquiries personally. Their back-up service is excellent.
For secure online transactions, they offer additional shared secure hosting at secure-vault.com for only $30 per year, or can provide you with your own secure certificate for only $179 per year.
Using Value Hosting Australia, the cost of establishing a small to medium interactive business site with ecommerce is as follows:
| Hosting: | |
|---|---|
| Domain name registration (yourbusiness.com.au) | $79.95 per two years |
| Website hosting (basic package) | $129.95 per year |
| Secure hosting at secure-vault.com | $30 per year |
| First year sub-total: | $239.90 |
| Web authoring: | |
| All times approximate, depending on customer requirements | |
| Website establishment, set up email accounts, website templates including navigation and styles | 2.5 hours |
| First eight pages | 4 hours |
| Contact form | 0.5 hours |
| Booking/order form on secure-vault.com | 3 hours (varies according to product range) |
| Creating/modifying graphics for web | 2 hours |
| Approx. 12 hours @ $50 per hour | |
| Establishment sub-total: | $600 |
| Establishment total: | $839.90 |
As indicated, web authoring costs are totally dependant on customers requirements. Some websites I have written have cost far less, some have cost far more.