What is a website subscription?

A website subscription is a plan where you pay a monthly fee, usually after a one-time setup fee, and one company builds, hosts and maintains your website. The monthly covers the work a site needs after launch: hosting, security updates, content changes and support.

What does the monthly fee cover?

A website subscription bundles the costs that start after launch. A typical plan covers:

  • Hosting, so the site stays online
  • Security updates and certificate renewals
  • Content changes: text, photos and new pages
  • Support from a person who knows your site

How is a subscription different from buying a website?

Buying a website outright means one larger payment for the build. After that, hosting is a separate bill, updates are your job, and each change is a new invoice from whoever built it. A subscription folds those costs into one monthly fee and makes one company responsible for keeping the site working.

Who is a website subscription for?

A subscription suits owners who want the site handled and expect it to change: new services, seasonal hours, photos of recent work, posts and offers. An owner who wants a site that rarely changes, and is happy to host and update it, may pay less buying one outright. Price the edits you expect before you decide.

What should I ask before I sign up?

Four questions sort most plans:

  1. What counts as a change, and is there a cap?
  2. Who owns the content and the domain?
  3. What happens to the site if I cancel?
  4. When does the monthly start?

Short answers to the first three are in what “unlimited website changes” means, who owns a website you pay for monthly and what happens to a website when you cancel.

How does a reddysite subscription work?

reddysite charges a setup fee for the build and a monthly fee from the day the site is delivered. The monthly pays for hosting, security patching, support and unlimited content changes: text, photos, pages and posts, with new features quoted first. What a reddysite does after launch is part of every plan, and the reddysite pricing page has the figures.

Frequently asked questions

Is a website subscription cheaper than buying a website?

It depends on how often the site changes. A site bought outright still needs hosting, updates and paid edits every year, so add those up over three years before you compare.

Does a subscription include a domain name?

Sometimes. The safer setup is a domain kept in your own name at your registrar, whoever builds the site.

Can I cancel a website subscription?

Most plans let you, but terms differ on what happens to the site. On reddysite you can cancel any time, and the site stays up through the period you've paid for.

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