just a thought, have you considered EC2?
If you're hosting multiple websites you can have them in the same place
which *may* make it easier for you - obviously the cost savings get
'better' the more websites you add.
I know you said you didnt want to be a system admin but really you get a
bit more control and theres not that much messing around.
My costs for just a single website are:
1) domain name per year: $15/year (changeIP)
2) ddns: $6/year (changeIP)
3) ec2: free for 1st year (salesman-ish arent I?) then $161 each year
after that (reserved instance $62 upfront plus $99 year)
If you're adding 5+ websites then obviously only 1) and 2) increase
(depending on your traffic thru EC2 which I'm assuming is light)
Wal
On 2/04/2012 1:41 PM, David Burela wrote:
Over the weekend I was considering "supporting websites". Websites
that support the promotion of your small applications (such as phone
apps).
Lets say I'm making phone applications, and I just want to throw a
website up to act as a landing page. Something I can direct new users
to which displays an About page, have an embedded video, etc.
I tried doing some calculations for how much something like this would
cost, this is what I came up with
_AppHarbor / DNSimple_ (https://dnsimple.com/pricing &
https://appharbor.com/pricing)
*Domain registration* - $16 / year
*DNS mapping* - $34 / year
*Website hosting* - $0
*Website hosting with DNS mapping* - $120 / year
*Total $170* / year / application.
_Wordpress.com_
Domain registration - $5 / year (wordpress upgrade)
Domain mapping - $12 / year (wordpress upgrade)
Removal of adverts - $36 / year
Custom design - $30
*Total $83 / year / application*
Both options are probably more than I'll make on most of my small
apps. And gets expensive when promoting multiple apps.
I could try and get more bang for my buck and extend the site so that
it can also host some supporting webservices that my application can use.
Are my calculations correct?
Is there another way to go about this?
How do you guys go about creating small landing pages like this?
("Buying your own server" seems a very heavy handed way to go about
it, and I don't want to become a full time sys-admin looking after my
own server)
-David Burela
