What no subscription does and doesn't mean
What we mean by it: you pay once for the build, and there is no recurring fee to us afterwards. Not for access, not for the right to edit, not for the privilege of keeping your own pages online.
What does not disappear, for anybody
Two costs belong to being on the internet at all, and they are paid to the companies providing them, not to a builder.
- Your domain name, renewed with your registrar.
- Hosting, the space your site occupies somewhere.
Anyone promising you zero cost forever is being imprecise. What a one-time build removes is the third category: the platform subscription and the stack of paid add-ons propping it up. From our own rebuild work, that is where owners save between $75 and $650 a month.
How to tell a real one-time build from a rental
Ask three questions about what you will hold at the end: who has the code, whose name is on the hosting account, and whose name is on the domain. If the answer to all three is you, it was a build. If the code stays with the builder, or the accounts are in their name, it was a rental with a different word on the invoice.
What we charge is set out on rebuild cost. Anything further is covered at your consultation and in your agreement.
A fair note on later changes: sites need changes eventually. Ours are built so another developer can make them, which keeps you free rather than tied to us.