How Much Should A Website Cost?

There seems to be an urban myth that websites only cost a few dollars. Although it is true that anyone can build a websites for pennies, developing aplications and designs can cost millions of dollars.

If the site is going to manage large amounts of data and users, the hardware can easily cost half a million dollars.

If the site is successful and people use it, the bandwith can easily cost $50,000.00 a month or more.

So how can you get a site for a few dollars?

The reality is, you wont have millions of people using your site. You wont have massive amounts of data and you wont make millions of dollars from your website. So you wont need a million dollars in hardware.

The cost of your website will be directly proportional to how many users the website will have.

99% of the busineses will not have overly sucessful websites. So generally the cost would be $10 to about $200 a month for an average business.

What businesses need to realize is that you cannot have the functionality of an ebay or google for $10 a month.

Companies like google run in excess of 100,000 servers to manage one website. But a small busines may be one of sever hundred websites on one server.

As your business grows and more data or users are needed, the cost will increase.

Now that you are confused. You realize a website can cost between a few dollars and a few million dollars.