RichS

Need a little help folks

Any idea what a reasonable price would be for the following:

For the period of 12 months-
1. Host a (fairly basic) website with:
- 9 pages in total
- Approximately 15 graphical images
- 11 low res. photos
2. Provide some hit analysis on the site.
3. Continually submit the site to leading search engines.

(Site production, maintenance, mail/web forwarding etc not included)

Does £300 plus VAT sound fair?

I know it's a bit like "how long is a piece of string", but any feedback would be helpful....

Thanks

Rich

ChrisB

Pricey IMO Rich.

http://www.titanhosts.net - discounted in the ScoobyShop.

Lee will sort you - he hosts for loads of us now

scoob_dood

http://oneandone.co.uk offer a variety of solutions at seemingly reasonable prices.

- Jon

super_si

I use lee's and its brilliant! highly recommended

Si

RichS

Thanks guys.

Not really looking for alternatives at the moment, just after some confirmation that £300 is or isn't VFM before I challenge it.

Rich

scoob_dood

Then, no I would say £300 is a bit steep! Dependent on what aspects of the package you consider essential ?

- Jon

ChrisB

Nope, you're getting rucked Rich.

I'd expect £100 to cover all my hosting, domain name, mail etc costs for a year. The Search Engine bit might cost a bit extra.

Dream Weaver

Defo NOT VFM.

That level of hosting will cost you about £50 a year max. All depends on what they are doing with the search engine submission really. If they just submit to Google once a month then its overpriced. If they constantly update your meta tags, register with all search engines, check the site thoroughly for relevant search engine data, etc etc and are generally pro-active with submission, then it may be more in line.

chiark

VERY expensive, unless your bandwidth requirements are astronomical...

RichS

Thanks for the feedback guys

Okay - to be fair to the company in question, I said that site maintenance was not included, but it is - I just haven't proposed any updates yet - my fault.
I intend to rectify this now and depending on how much they will let me change/update within the cost, £300 may not be so bad after all...

DW - no idea to what extent the search engine submissions go to, but I'm reasonably happy with the number of customer enquiries I currently receive from the site...

scoob_dood

You mean that included in the price, they will update the site's content for you ?

- Jon

RichS

Meaning that included in the price, they will update the site with any new text, graphics or photos that I give them. - This is the bit I got wrong on my original post.

Exactly how many changes I can make remains to be seen.

So, to be fair, £300 may not be so bad.

Rich

GaryK

yep host alot of sites with www.oneandone.co.uk excellent price, service and bandwidth, I think they are the biggest host in the UK now.

Gary

scoob_dood

Yeah that makes a huge difference! Like going from hosted sites, to fully managed sites! In which case £300 isn't bad (depending on frequency of updates).

Do you mind if I ask who from ?

- Jon

RichS

LOL - so I'm a muppet! - But that's no secret...

Yes - it's not just hosted, but I've yet to test how fully "fully managed" is...

scoob_dood

and you're getting this service from ..... ?

RichS

No I don't mind if you ask who from Jon, but given the unfair bad press I may have generated for them in this thread, maybe I shouldn't.

(You don't need to be too much of a detective to work it out though... )

scoob_dood

ok - I'm confused - which probably makes me the muppet now

:S

- Jon

RichS

LOL - you have mail Jon

scoob_dood

Cheers

- Jon