web site "costs £120 per year to host it on the WordPress platform"

grumpycrab

We're getting somebody to do a "professional" but simple web site. they will "host using wordpress" and have quoted "costs £120 per year to host it on the WordPress platform"

Does this seem reasonable. What other questions should we ask?

Collabora

If they are designing the website and hosting it then £10 a month seems a fair price as normally you are looking at £150 min. just for a basic web designed these days.

byjimini

Is it an ecommerce website or just a personal site?

grumpycrab

Thanks - we're modernising an existing, simple, site for a charity. (its actually a choir).

BJV

Save the money!!!. Word Press is a very simple system to use and most can be changed within minutes. There are lots of different styles to choose from and lots are free. You really do not need a lot of experience. Promise.

Just Google free word press sites.

The hosting ???? shop around you can get hosting for pennies.

[Deleted User]

Sounds overly pricey - the company I use to use when I did web design (10 years ago!) only charges £35 a year, and that is suitable for wordpress

(https://www.netweaver.co.uk/web_hosting.php)

£120 a year for hosting sounds rather over the top

byjimini

I use these:

https://www.tsohost.com/web-hosting

If it's just a website with a few pictures and information, then £15 a year (plus £10-odd for a domain name) should suffice.

I have my own website through them, hosted by Wordpress, which is just links to photos and videos of my songs.

grumpycrab

Thanks. Lets get this straight - we need a proper job done - so I have to believe that getting a "web designer" to do the redesign is the correct way to go. Can we then just say "after the design pass over all code and hosting responsibilities back to the customer"?

Collabora

other on here the OP is not just getting hosting, they are also having a site designed/refreshed. Yes most hosts will offer WP as this comes as a script on script installers like Softaculous, but you get some hosts that specialise in WP and will even do any backend work required. so as i stated £120 a year to have a site redesigned and hosting is cheap. get hosting for peanuts is not the best advice as what do you get for the peanuts. The is a lot of work involved in hosting a site to make sure a server etc. is secure and with WP this is important as WP is not the most secure script

[Deleted User]

Get the developer to spit the cost into a 'redevelopment cost' and then an annual hosting charge - Don't let them take you for £120 every year ongoing! Consider your 5-10 year 'cost of ownership'

As the client, you should try to 'own your code' once it's built. You don't want a developer that can yank the site down without your permission

Collabora

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Get the developer to spit the cost into a 'redevelopment cost' and then an annual hosting charge - Don't let them take you for £120 every year ongoing! Consider your 5-10 year 'cost of ownership'

As the client, you should try to 'own your code' once it's built. You don't want a developer that can yank the site down without your permission

depends if the developer is going to do any charges/updates/maintenance on the site on a continuous basis, which paying an annual cost would imply this.

Normally a reasonable site hosting with WP would be £5 a month and a site designer would normally charge a single 1 time fee to do a site. This is roughly £150 min.