Any website developers?

Does anyone here develop and maintain websites?

What would charges depend on?

I'm at an early stage in a business idea and would like to have an idea on costs.
 
Costs? Just your time, web space and a domain name. Web space is inexpensive: €1.89 per month for 25 GB of storage, plus the cost of a domain name. The latter is usually included in the service fee.
 
It would depend on if you could use something like Wordpress or Drupal or some existing solution.

Some customisation of something like those would be more $$$.

If you want a custom from-scratch solution then definitely more $$$.

Would it need a database? Would SQLite be enough or more complex requirements needing PostgreSQL or MySQL?

How many users?

What technologies would be off-limits? (Some people dislike Wordpress, PHP, etc.)

What design requirements? Something nice to look at, and responsive design (for mobile friendliness).

Dynamic or static?

Security? Firewall? Does it have logins?

Backups, DR/redundancy, uptime, etc.

No doubt some one will recommend vibe-coding.
 
Costs? Just your time, web space and a domain name. Web space is inexpensive: €1.89 per month for 25 GB of storage, plus the cost of a domain name. The latter is usually included in the service fee.
Out of this business a long time. It's a norm but waste of money and effort on fundamental level anyway. Any functionality that any webpage offers could be just a program. This not happening is why everything stays slow and ridiculously resource-intensive forever. If computers, networks and storage get faster, more nonsense is added to make it all stay te same. I lost the technical challenge after the time of CGI.
 
It would depend on if you could use something like Wordpress or Drupal or some existing solution.

Some customisation of something like those would be more $$$.

If you want a custom from-scratch solution then definitely more $$$.

Would it need a database? Would SQLite be enough or more complex requirements needing PostgreSQL or MySQL?

How many users?

What technologies would be off-limits? (Some people dislike Wordpress, PHP, etc.)

What design requirements? Something nice to look at, and responsive design (for mobile friendliness).

Dynamic or static?

Security? Firewall? Does it have logins?

Backups, DR/redundancy, uptime, etc.

No doubt some one will recommend vibe-coding.
I was thinking initially of using a standard Drupal+PostgreSQL package for real estate management.

I'm just at an early stage and looking at how feasible it would be to set up a prototype.

No idea about how many users.

What I would need is some support from time to time in case of problems.

Is the choice of a location of a VPS relevant?

If it took off, I assume it is a simple enough task to move to a more powerful system with the service provider.
 
Does anyone here develop and maintain websites?

What would charges depend on?

I'm at an early stage in a business idea and would like to have an idea on costs.
I host 7; main cost is the domain ($20/year)
Is the choice of a location of a VPS relevant?
If you're on the west part of a country but have website visits mostly from the east, it might be better to have the VPS on the east so most visitors have lower-latency, but it might make quick sysadmin stuff/ssh a little slower. If the VPS has a historic status page I'd check if particular regions have more frequent maintenance/downtime than others (wildfires, storms, coastal/floods)
 
I host 7; main cost is the domain ($20/year)

Are you able to use FreeBSD for hosting these sites?
If you're on the west part of a country but have website visits mostly from the east, it might be better to have the VPS on the east so most visitors have lower-latency, but it might make quick sysadmin stuff/ssh a little slower. If the VPS has a historic status page I'd check if particular regions have more frequent maintenance/downtime than others (wildfires, storms, coastal/floods)

I think most visitors would be from US.
 
I was thinking initially of using a standard Drupal+PostgreSQL package for real estate management.
I was involved with the St. Louis Chess Club and Museum which is known around the world. They use Drupal. It can handle anything but it's large and can be complicated. My company used postgreSQL for everything and it's a wise choice.
Is the choice of a location of a VPS relevant?
If your users are in the US and your VPS is in the US then not likely. If it ever becomes an issue then you just change providers.
Are you able to use FreeBSD for hosting these sites?
Of course. We hosted a large restaurant chain and a theater company for many years along with a multitude of smaller operations.
 
Are you able to use FreeBSD for hosting these sites?
Yeah, they run on 16.0-CURRENT now :D (details); 2 are static text and the rest PHP/MySQL

I used to use Joomla for a landing page, but a Node.js module didn't support FreeBSD (Cypress iirc); I tried Drupal a few times years ago and it might be a good alternative, but I made a static text page for now :p
 
Does anyone here develop and maintain websites?

What would charges depend on?

I'm at an early stage in a business idea and would like to have an idea on costs.

You should link to an existing website that is similar to what you imagine you need. That allows much more specific answers.
 
By "package" do you mean there's an existing solution (I'm assuming not a FreeBSD port/package) and you just need to host (and maybe tweak) that solution?
I was browsing through


I will need to install Drupal to see what this gives me.

I appreciate that Drupal provides a very powerful framework and I may well 90% of my requirements are provided by downloading a package.
 
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