> Then the actual cost. While you can get a cheap site up and going for not much. If you get even slightly popular you are now looking at a decent amount of money for many people. You may not see a couple hundred a month as 'no big deal' but many people do. You can pay a provider to take some of that patching work out of your hands but you pay for that.
Agree with the whole message and tone of your comment but wondering about this bit. We run a bunch of Wordpress sites with decent traffic and a bunch of badly optimised front-end, heaps of old plugins from decades passed: we can hit 20k uniques and a million requests per day, with nightly backups for $30/mo. It could be less if we didn't care about completely surviving every traffic spike and bot crawl.
$30/month indefinitely adds up pretty fast. It's $360/yr or $18,000 over 50 years. It feels like pocket change to someone with stable IT employment, but it shuts out a fair chunk of the population.
Definitely expensive for an individual or small group which is why I emphasised agreement with the message. The question was specifically about the cost estimate they gave.
Edit: Re-reading what I wrote and how much I quoted I realise now that wasn't clear :)
uh... Not sure where you got that I had a cost estimate? My point was time and money. If they do not have time or interest for something any amount of money is probably too much. That was sort of my point that I had time to think about it.
Agree with the whole message and tone of your comment but wondering about this bit. We run a bunch of Wordpress sites with decent traffic and a bunch of badly optimised front-end, heaps of old plugins from decades passed: we can hit 20k uniques and a million requests per day, with nightly backups for $30/mo. It could be less if we didn't care about completely surviving every traffic spike and bot crawl.