There are two types of costs:
- Fixed costs
- Variable costs
Fixed Costs
Domain name:
- $20-$35 per year. Depends on the number of years you pay for, the
company you get it from, etc.
Hosting Company:
- A company that supplies a web server, backup, technical support,
email servers, ftp servers, etc. Free to thousands per month. Many large
companies have their own with there own staff. For the rest of us, there
are companies that do this for you. Typical costs are $25/month for low
end up to $65/month for a host with e-commerce, shopping carts, etc.
We have a reseller’s agreement with one of the
largest and can offer hosting for a low as $18.95/month. See our Hosting Fee
Schedule.
Setup Fees:
- A one-time fee charged by a hosting company to get everything going.
Typically, $40-$50. This includes setting up your empty web site on a
server, getting your domain name to point to this empty site. Setting up
an email server to allow the creation of email accounts.
Per-Transaction Fees:
- Fees changed by merchant accounts, credit card companies, pay-check,
pay-pall, etc. From a few cents to a few % of the transaction.
Your fixed costs are about $250 per year, with an extra $50 dollars
the first year to get things setup.
Variable Costs:
- There is only one variable cost; paying for the time it takes to do
what you want.
This is the cost that can get out of hand. Everything you want on a
site takes time, every change you want takes time, and every addition
you want takes time.
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