Get a Website for as little as £99, with free hosting!

£99 for a site with free hosting sounds incredible, but it isn't really. For this price you'll probably get a couple of pages, and if you want up to ten it will cost £699. You're bound to find that the hosting is only free for 1 year, and after that it will either be quite expensive or unreliable.

The word cheap suggests something that is of low quality and not worth much. Very few Web designers could afford to spend much time putting together a Website for such a small fee, so the work is likely to be hurried, and the design unremarkable.

Service and Sustainability

In order to cover the average salary for a single Web designer - which is £30,000 per year - a company charging £99 for a Website would have to produce over 25 sites per month, per employee.

Web designers who single-handedly run a business from their bedroom don't usually have high overheads to consider, allowing them to provide services at low cost. Many people operating in this way don't last very long, or at least have another job providing most of their income. In such cases the designer can take days/weeks to resolve problems or make updates that clients have requested. Some of our own clients parted company with their Web designers and came to us because of this very issue.

If you pay more for Web design you should expect more. Both the Website design and the service should be of high quality, providing you with plenty of time to discuss your requirements and to revise the design until you are happy. If you're paying very little then don't be surprised to receive an inefficient or unreliable service.