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My Direct Costs

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My Direct Costs

I am not selling or reselling anything. This is an estimate of my direct costs for the scheme below of StansEvents.com: $14.32 USD / first year, $18.82 USD / yearly renewal.

Domain Registration

  • Cloudflare.com
    • $10.44 USD / year
    • Excellent propagation
    • Excellent scalability
    • Lots of free front-end services
      • Hidden registration
      • SSL
    • Easy to link with website hosts and email servers
    • No spam and minimal up selling
  • Other options like Hostgator.com
    • $13.17 USD / year
    • Front-end services are additional expenses
    • Avalanche of spam and up selling

Website Host

  • Must support WordPress
  • Lots of plans to choose from
    • Typical 1-year entry plans
      • $50 USD / first year
      • $150 to $200 USD / yearly renewal
      • 10 to 25 websites
      • $2 to $5 USD / website / first year
      • $6 to $15 USD / website / yearly renewal
    • Hostgator
      • $50 USD / first year 
      • $200 USD / yearly renewal
      • 10 websites
      • Unstable WordPress support
        • broken sites
        • website collisions
      • Avalanche of spam and up selling
      • Lots of hassles
        • Blocking Cloudflare.com SSL
      • Bad user support
      • Cannot easily clone
    • Hostinger
      • $50 USD / first year 
      • $150 USD / yearly renewal
      • 25 websites
      • Stable WordPress support
      • No spam and minimal up selling
      • No hassles so far
      • Good user support
      • !! EASY CLONING !!

Email

  • Present email address
    • No additional cost
    • Domain URL is not your brand named
  • Gmail
    • Free
    • Domain URL is not your brand named
  • Host add-on email services like Hostgator.com
    • Added expense
    • Reliability and security issues
    • Added hassles when changing hosts
    • Avalanche of spam and up selling 
  • iCloud+
    • $0.99 USD / month
    • 5 custom domains
    • 3 email custom addresses / custom domain
      • $0.20 USD / domain / month ($2.38 USD / domain / year)
      • $0.07 USD / email address / month ($0.79 USD / address / year)
      • Integrates with other apple services (sign in to Apple accounts, Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, etc)
      • Can be shared with other people.
    • [email protected] looks good and is available because you registered YourBrand.com
    • No spam or up selling

Add Ons

  • Blog Starter Package
  • Forms
    • WPForms Lite
      • Free
  • Backups
    • UpdraftPlus
      • Free
  • Calendars
    • Google Calendar embedded HTML
      • Free

Costs of Preferred Set Ups:

  • Domain Registration
    • Cloudflare
      • $10.44 USD/year
  • Website Host
    • Hostinger
      • 25 websites
      • $50 USD / first year ($2 USD / website / first year)
      • $150 USD / yearly renewal ($6 USD / website / yearly renewal)
  • Email
    • iCloud+
      • 5 websites – $11.88 USD / year
      • $2.38 USD / website / year
    • Gmail
      • $0 USD
  • Add Ons
    • $0 USD / year
  • Total costs with Gmail
    • Stand alone account
      • $60.44 USD / first year
      • $160.44 USD / yealy renewal
    • Shared account
      • $11.94 USD / website / first year
      • $15.44 USD / website / yearly renewal
  • Total costs with iCloud+ email
    • Stand alone account
      • $72.32 USD / first year
      • $172.32 USD / yearly renewal
    • Shared account
      • $14.32 USD / website / first year
      • $18.82 USD / website / yearly renewal
      • Present schemes of:
        • StansEvents.com
        • StansWorld.com
        • StansBrands.com

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