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Rent your website or own it: the math
Many small-business websites are rented for $100 to $500 a month on contracts that renew themselves, and the business never owns the site. Enter what you pay: the math runs in your browser, nothing is sent.
Over 36 months
- Rented website$10,800
At the end, the website isn’t yours.
- Website you own$5,314
The site, the domain name and the accounts are yours.
- Rent-to-own$5,760
Nothing upfront, $160 a month for 36 months, then hosting only: the site is yours.
- No-upfront plan$2,844
Nothing upfront, up to 5 pages, buy-out available.
Owning costs you $5,486 less over the period.
Owning becomes cheaper from month 14.
Before tax. This doesn’t count any early-termination fee in your current contract, and many renew automatically. Check its end date and notice period before you switch.