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Ive been planing a large subscription website for some time now. Im working on a business plan and am looking for information on an estimate for how much I can expect to pay for maintaining a large subscription site. Also if anyone is a web-developer would you be interested in helping me build such a site. It is overall a site where people register and subscribe for a monthly fee to access information on the site and from other users. I can go into more depth with anyone interested in collaborating services with ideas. Thanks in advance.
  • Profile picture of the author CreateSoft
    The cost for maintaining a site largely depends on how complex the site is to start with. If you have one developed yourself, odds are you will need 10-20 hours a month (sometimes more) for bug fixes, feature enhancements, or general improvements. That's not counting your fixed costs: hosting, domain, etc.

    Estimating the initial development gets much harder without a lot more details. You'll want a professional graphics designer do your HTML/CSS layouts and then a web developer to implement the page layouts along with all of the dynamic aspects of your site (logging in, payment processing, etc.). Suffice it to say, initial development is usually the most expensive part of the project.

    You might want to look for open-source solutions or a product you can purchase (like WishList) that might have 90-100% of what you're looking for. It will not only get you to market faster, but will vastly reduce your costs.
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  • Profile picture of the author christianbed
    Depends on what the site is, dude. We run a dating site with about 350 members, and just spend $40/mo on a VPS...
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  • Profile picture of the author ritchierich
    If you need help, PM me.
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  • Profile picture of the author wayne71
    Originally Posted by slimi1500 View Post

    Ive been planing a large subscription website for some time now. Im working on a business plan and am looking for information on an estimate for how much I can expect to pay for maintaining a large subscription site. Also if anyone is a web-developer would you be interested in helping me build such a site. It is overall a site where people register and subscribe for a monthly fee to access information on the site and from other users. I can go into more depth with anyone interested in collaborating services with ideas. Thanks in advance.
    Well once it is set up correctly, then maintenance should not be an issue. Or maybe I do not understand what you are saying. What type of maintaining are you talking about?

    If I were you, I would hook up with the guy in the thread that has the Dating site and runs it on a VPS (Virtual Private Server). Because I have not dove into VPS servers in my career just yet. If you are looking for help setting up the membership aspect of it, then I can help you with that. It may help to start a thread on the S2 Membership plugin for Wordpress.

    Wait... Are you even using Wordpress?
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