Website Costings

I have a domain name and website but I wanted to clarify the costings for this.

WEB SITE DOMAIN NAME
I already have a domain name for the website from an earlier project so I can use this which is braintreefilms.com. I have this registered through 1&1 internet and will need to continue to  renew this yearly though and the cost of this is £13:09 a year.

WIX ACCOUNT
Wix is a free website building tool that I have used previously to build and  create a small site for a feature documentary I produced that did a few screenings and film festival appearances. i aim to use it again for the rebuild and repurposing
However to get rid of the Wix branding and Wix suffix on the domain name (the URL was originally you do need to pay. This is to port/connect the domain name and URL braintreefilms.com to the website based on Wix. In order to do this I needed to buy the Connect Domain Package with this functionality and the charge for this is £36:72 yearly to connect my braintreefilms.com URL. This is the simplest way of connecting my site name. However if I need any other extras and additional bolt ons I will also need to pay for these. This may be mail-boxes which will be another £34:03 a year making £70:75  year for both. However I could consider buying a Wix Premium Plan at £111:74 a year which includes both of these but also gets rid of all Wix adverts and provides more storage and bandwidth. This may be something to grow into but currently it is not needed.

VIDEO STREAMING
This can obviously be done for free on Youtube and plenty of other video based online accounts. However the quality on these can be not the best and I need a very professional look to my work and the ability to have complete control over all my content and settings. These other platforms which as I mentioned not only include Youtube but also Metacafe, Hulu and Veoh. these could be used but also could other ways of getting content to users and clients such as Facebook, Vines, Twitter and Google+. However the most stable and established platform for video and film professionals online is Vimeo. This has four different packages (Basic, Plus, Pro and Business) all of them esculating in terms of control, scale and functionality. The last 2 are designed for much bigger companies and are much more costly Pro being £159:00 and Business being £479:00 and these are something that I may need in the future and can grow into but not currently. That leaves 2 options.

Vimeo Basic: 
Cost free, 500MB/week storage, 25GB year. Unlimited bandwidth & basic privacy.
Vimeo Plus: 
Cost £49:99, 5GB/week storage, 250GB year. Unlimited bandwidth & advanced privacy including private link sharing.

I really do not want to spend the £49:99 a year on the plus but some of the functionality will make protecting my work and the digital rights management of it easier. I can encrypt work on plus and then send a link and password to whoever wants to view it thus protecting my content from being downloaded for free. I can also protect all content on the domain and They both will screen the work the same but Plus also allows me greater yearly and weekly storage. The support with issues is guaranteed to be 4 hours weekdays and 24 hours at weekends and it also allows customization of the Vimeo player if needs be.

WEB SITS DESIGN AND BUILD
This will be done by myself using Wix templates as I have some graphic design experience and it will keep the costs down. I did some research into how much it would be to outsource this and the costs varied greatly but the averages being somewhere between the two prices outlined below.

The cost of a first 1-10 page website will roughly be:
Domain name and hosting - £0.99-£50
Simple design work – £400-£600
Ongoing costs - £0-£10 per month
Overall cost - £400-£770

The cost of a small business 10-20 page website will roughly be:
Domain name and hosting - £0.99-£100
Design work – £600-£1,200
Programming - £900-£2,000
Ongoing costs - £0-£30 per month
Overall cost - £1,000-£3,500

As I have the name and hosting sorted and have covered the ongoing costs already the only other costs I would incur would be the design work and programming. So by doing the work myself and using Wix I will be saving myself a conservative estimate of between £500:00 and £2500:00. Going for the middle of these it will be saving myself about £1500:00

OVERALL COSTINGS
Taking all of the above into account the cost for creating the website breaks down like this.

£13:09: Domain Name (1&1)
£36:72; Video Hosting (Wix)
£49:99: Video Hosting (Vimeo)
£1500:00: Website build and coding (Real world costs)

Therefore if I was to outsource the design and build the cost would be £1599:80 and if I do all of the design and build work myself it would be £99:80. This makes perfectly clear that I will need to build the website myself. It will take longer but I can make it incredibly bespoke to my needs and adaptable to all of my content. Also a thorough understanding of the website will make it easier for me to update and make changes.