How much does a top web site cost in 2014?

[laladomains]

Hi,
We are thinking to open a top online marketing web site and we Woundring How much a top website (About 1 Million traffic per day) cost in this days.

Thanks,
Lala

 

[Name Trader]

Cost to buy or cost to run?

 

[laladomains]

Cost to buy or cost to run?

Cost to run

 

[N-A]

Not very specific besides traffic...

 

[The New Guy]

How much does a car that can go 100MPH cost?

Your question is very difficult to answer without the barest of details about what type of content you will be serving, how it will be served, what kind of user functionality is offered, etc etc.

 

[Name Trader]

I'm not very sure if 1 dedicated server could handle 1 million visitors a day. If not, you may need a bunch of servers. You'd need the marketing staff. You'd need programming support staff.You'd need admin support staff to pay their wages. Probably around 20 people, all in. You'd need an office to house them in. These are all guesses since all we have to go on is the traffic.

 

[N-A]

I'm not very sure if 1 dedicated server could handle 1 million visitors a day. If not, you may need a bunch of servers. You'd need the marketing staff. You'd need programming support staff.You'd need admin support staff to pay their wages. Probably around 20 people, all in. You'd need an office to house them in. These are all guesses since all we have to go on is the traffic.

We can play Charades all day with this question, however, I don't think it will lead anywhere without more specific details as such:
Where is the traffic originating from?
What content are you serving?
What CMS are you using?
Do you think load balancing should be used?
Should you serve static files on one....

I give up.

 

[matrigaldo]

First at all 1 (real) millions of views / day requires several dedicated servers otherwise you wouldn't be able to handle all this traffic. And they are expensive.
But besides this technical information i can't say anything else without knowing some more details...

 

[laladomains]

Thanks for all the replay guys. we are dealing with domains and we don't any Experience with web development, therefore, we also do not understand too much in terms of sites.
So, before we consult with companies we decided to derive some information from the experts at namepros.
The idea it's to create a site style coupons. we want to know only about price for create a full site (American audience), that could be handle with a million traffic per day, (secured site of course) with a credit payment options and PayPal. we not asking about site promotion at the moment Because the goal is to create a viral exposure (We have experience in this). Hope this is enough information.
Thanks.

 

[The New Guy]

Thanks for all the replay guys. we are dealing with domains and we don't any Experience with web development, therefore, we also do not understand too much in terms of sites.
So, before we consult with companies we decided to derive some information from the experts at namepros.
The idea it's to create a site style coupons. we want to know only about price for create a full site (American audience), that could be handle with a million traffic per day, (secured site of course) with a credit payment options and PayPal. we not asking about site promotion at the moment Because the goal is to create a viral exposure (We have experience in this). Hope this is enough information.
Thanks.

No, it's not enough at all.

On the plus side you do sound like every client I've ever had when designing a site like this (incredibly vague descriptions of desired site), so you're on the right track!

 

[laladomains]

No, it's not enough at all.

On the plus side you do sound like every client I've ever had when designing a site like this (incredibly vague descriptions of desired site), so you're on the right track!

Because of legal issues I can not reveal more.
About your answer, if from your experience it's impossible to give an estimated amount of such a type of site i understand. Thanks, i appreciate your reply!.

 

[biggie]

Hi

building a website doesn't have to be expensive, depending on how creative or complex you want it to be.

the "unpredictable" expenses are on the "backend", where you have to retrieve, secure and store data, as well as deliver the products/services being marketed.

the greater the volume of either or both, will increase costs.

best to start small and scale up, according to sales and ability to manage growth.

imo...

 

[laladomains]

Hi Biggie, Thanks for the info.
we want clean and simple site designed and definitely we will start small and scale up.
About the shipping we have an agreement with a shipping company already.
about the site security, we don't want the site will store on its servers any credit card information.
do you know what the price of a good site security?
Thanks again

 

[The New Guy]

Because of legal issues I can not reveal more.
About your answer, if from your experience it's impossible to give an estimated amount of such a type of site i understand. Thanks, i appreciate your reply!.

Then any answer you get here will be worthless.

That's not a knock on the people trying to give an answer - the problem is that you can't give any useful details.

Since you can't give any useful details, there's really no point in even asking the question.

It's like asking a group of architects "how much will it cost to build 100 apartments?" without being able to detail location, unit sizes, number of bedrooms, amenities and dozens of other pieces of information that are needed to give even a remotely close estimate.

 

[laladomains]

Then any answer you get here will be worthless.

That's not a knock on the people trying to give an answer - the problem is that you can't give any useful details.

Since you can't give any useful details, there's really no point in even asking the question.

It's like asking a group of architects "how much will it cost to build 100 apartments?" without being able to detail location, unit sizes, number of bedrooms, amenities and dozens of other pieces of information that are needed to give even a remotely close estimate.

Thanks I understand what you are saying. If, however, you can give an example of the estimated cost of a similar site that you did on the past it would be great. If not its o.k, thank you very much for your replay, i appreciate your desire to help!!.
Regards

 

[The New Guy]

Thanks I understand what you are saying. If, however, you can give an example of the estimated cost of a similar site that you did on the past it would be great. If not its o.k, thank you very much for your replay, i appreciate your desire to help!!.
Regards

How can I? How can anyone?

I don't know - because you won't tell - how users will be interacting with the site, what kind of information will be accessed, how access will be handled, the amount of data to be processed across how many tables, how that data will be served and presented, and whatever eye candy / advanced interactions accompany the presentation of the information.

You're trying to play both sides of it here - saying you want an estimate of what the site cost but saying your site idea is so top secret that you can't give even the most basic details needed to give a proper estimate.

This is like a domain appraisal thread. The only answer you will likely be happy with - given the few details you have provided - is one that reinforces what you think a site like this should cost.

 

[matrigaldo]

We can just speculate about it with no details, and reality could be anything different than what said here.
It seems like you aren't into Web development so you have to hire someone, and it depends on how you want the website, it could cost $500 or $5000.
Then you should start with a small dedicated server (managed preferred) and that's other $100 monthly for a cheap and poor one, at the beginning. Good to handle up to 3k-5k users per day, no more.
And then advertising campaigns, and if you want to start good you have to invest a lot here, but it can't be predictable,there are too many variables in here.

 

[laladomains]

How can I? How can anyone?

I don't know - because you won't tell - how users will be interacting with the site, what kind of information will be accessed, how access will be handled, the amount of data to be processed across how many tables, how that data will be served and presented, and whatever eye candy / advanced interactions accompany the presentation of the information.

You're trying to play both sides of it here - saying you want an estimate of what the site cost but saying your site idea is so top secret that you can't give even the most basic details needed to give a proper estimate.

This is like a domain appraisal thread. The only answer you will likely be happy with - given the few details you have provided - is one that reinforces what you think a site like this should cost.

Like I said, unfortunately there is some things that I can't say right now because of legal problems. I understand that the information I have given is currently difficult to help with, 'll See if I can legally tell more and if i it be possible, i will provide more details.
Thanks.

 

[laladomains]

We can just speculate about it with no details, and reality could be anything different than what said here.
It seems like you aren't into Web development so you have to hire someone, and it depends on how you want the website, it could cost $500 or $5000.
Then you should start with a small dedicated server (managed preferred) and that's other $100 monthly for a cheap and poor one, at the beginning. Good to handle up to 3k-5k users per day, no more.
And then advertising campaigns, and if you want to start good you have to invest a lot here, but it can't be predictable,there are too many variables in here.

Yes I've said that,, I'm not into Web development.
you have provided interesting information, thanks for the help!.

 

[Name Trader]

$5k wont cut it for a website with 1M visitors a day with eye-candy.