Expected Cost of WordPress website
Domain & Hosting
You wanted to setup your business website using WordPress! That’s good choice as WordPress CMS is totally free, tones of themes and plugin options available for you. You can start with basic hosting package and buy your selected domain, basically it will cost you around 8$ – 12$/Month. You can say its total cost of your website ownership for 1 year approx 100$-120$.
Investment of time as WordPress is pretty simple!
If you wanted to set pretty basic and simple WordPress website, you must have basic knowledge of WordPress, like WordPress installation, Theme setup, basic CSS tweaks (that’s always required), Plugin setup and configuration, content setup. If you are not familiar with WordPress CMS, you must need to learn basic WordPress first, you need to spend approx 100 hours. That’s not done it’s just beginning. We can consider it’s pretty much time consuming and may be result outcome not perfect as you wanted.
Actual cost of WordPress website & maintenance
Domain & hosting (100$-120$)
Hire WordPress professional to design your website (Approx 400$ – 600$)
Your website setup is done now at this stage you need to think about your WordPress site maintenance, main 3 options you can consider, here is list of these all 3 options.
Don’t do anything, until any unwanted disaster.
Hire WordPress developer for maintenance
Learn WordPress yourself and start maintenance
Don’t do anything, until any unwanted disaster
Stay cool and calm and carry on your business, don’t do anything like backup, WordPress upgrade, Security setup. Now you have higher chance of something going very wrong and disaster will happens anytime. You save your time and money! No you don’t here is list of some very crucial effects.
Cost: It will cost you very high 400$-600$, you need to start it from very beginning.
Your time commitment for maintenance: none, you no need to spent time on maintenance.
Related risk: Very high, hacking + downtime.
Generally all WordPress user used first option, it’s not reliable option to choose
Learn WordPress yourself and start maintenance
You know that maintenance of your website is very important and you wanted to do it yourself that’s also good approach. Issue is if you wanted to do maintenance yourself you must have very good and technical knowledge of WordPress. For example you are going to update WordPress core files and your website broke down at that stage you can’t complain about your downtime. If your knowledge is good you can solve it immediately else downtime will be high, may be you could lose some potential customers during that down time. You must need to spent lots of hours to educating yourself about WordPress CMS.
Cost: there is no cost 0$, as you don’t need to pay anything to anyone
Your time commitment for maintenance: You need to spend lots of time to learn WordPress and 8-10 hours a month to maintain your website. (Don’t forgot time is money and you need to spend lot more time here)
Related risk: Low, we assume you learn everything about wordpress and how to maintain your WordPress website.
Hire WordPress developer for maintenance
That’s good idea to hire professional for your WordPress website maintenance. He / She will do upgrades, take backups and will charge you accordingly. In case of any disaster backups will help you to restore you website but you will lose some latest made changes as you can restore only from latest available backup. During WordPress or plugin update downtime will be varies as it’s depend on how quickly your developer will found issue and then solved it.
Cost: Medium, developer will cost you 100$ – 150$ depends on developer charges.
Your time commitment for maintenance: Very low, as you just need to contact your developer whenever you required help.
Related risk: Medium, It’s depending on skill set of developer, work priority and your contract terms and condition.
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The best option among these all
We at WP SMALL FIX provide complete solution for WordPress support services & maintenance with very economical price, you can select our plans as per your convenience and there is Small fix option also available if you wanted to fix any small WordPress issue. Once you sign up with WP Small fix you will have access of world’s best WordPress developer team. Also we provides WordPess Speed optimization service don’t hesitate to ask if you will any questions related to our services.
