Help answering a mates Uni question

[mat]

She needs to know roughly how much hosting would cost a month/year for a company like topshop.....

Thanks

 

[DaveH]

I know a guy who works with an agency who deals with a well know high street shopping department website. They host theirs at Rackspace, just the hosting was several thousands a month but that did include hardware firewalls and several servers. Next time I see him, I'll ask and remember this time :mrgreen:

Apparently Rackspace entry level is £350 per month.

He couldn't speak anymore highly of them.

 

[FC Domains]

I would imagine that the cost of hosting would be small, compared with the web site maintenance and development costs.
You can buy an awful lot of hosting for £1K a week, which would pay one of the developers.

 

[DaveH]

I guess it depends on what you'd classify as hosting.

A high street company could just have a server hosting their website or they could have their whole infrastructure held at such as place. Exchange, internal systems, contingency servers etc...

 

[mat]

Thats perfect guys

 

[SF]

try 118 118 you can ask them any questions,

 

[stevebrowne]

Most big sites are paying many thousands per month. All on 24x7 support with redundant servers, load balancing, escalation plans, the ful works.

But as Colin says, that is a drop in the ocean.

Take a big site like tesco.com. They recruit for 30-40 contractors at a time, on around £45/hr = 45 * 7 * 30 = £9450 per day = £190k per month or so. OK, they might not have that many all year long (but I wouldn't be surprised if they did'n't), but they probably have more than 30 on staff at any point in time.

Certainly another big site I know of, the client pays £250k per month for maintenance and content updates etc. For the client they can just email, call or fax what they want and it gets done. Which suits them.

 

[CollyMellon]

Thats alot of money for support, but I suppose people will allways charge over when dealing with such big companies.

 

[stevebrowne]

the 250k included the creation of content as well, so client would say "...vague stuff... ...like this sort of thing... ...maybe some of this..." and the agency does everything from pinning down the right people to get information, create images, photos, videos etc. And then have to do bits again as it wasn't what was required...

 

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