Was recently asked about the website hosting fee that is currently £45 per year and was told by a client that they thought that is expensive, we charge below average for hosting and offer a much fuller service on UK based award winning servers that have an incredible uptime.
My Response to client in brief: Really dont think £45 is expensive and of course you are at liberty to change to any provider you wish but I think its hard not to be easily swayed by these offers and not to see the big picture, you should realise that not only do you need hosting /domain / email but also a specific type of server and then one that uses the most up-to-date MySql and PHP to cater for your blog database and upgrades and backups of that. Since you have had your blog we have upgrade this 5 times to the latest / most secure version.
I think you get unbelievable value for money from our website hosting which is currently less than £4 per month, please check the amount of support we give you and tell me how many times your website / email has been unavailable. If I had done exactly what was asked of me previously your whole blog would have been lost. we have your best interests at heart.
We have many clients that we update and promote / maintain the site for and looking at your site you have gone from nothing to having over 950 visitors a month due to the sites build and its SEO (promotion) with the links we have provided to your site. we really value you as a clients and we do our best to make your changes quickly and efficiently. I know how badly some people get treated by other agencies and know we give a first class service.
We can only work on an hourly basis as your changes are so irregular and infrequent but if you wanted 10 hours a year we could come to a discounted hourly rate agreement and also if you batch your changes up we can do them quicker and more cheaply for you
