Station website cost worksheet
A website's sticker price is rarely its cost. Add every line (builder, domain, hosting, plugins, your time) with its real billing cycle and see the first-year and renewal totals side by side.
Enter what you pay or have been quoted. Each line has its own billing cycle. Stream hosting is a separate cost and is deliberately not in this sheet.
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Maintenance is hours per month × your hourly rate. Taxes are not included unless you include them. For stream bandwidth and listening hours, use RadioHost Studio's bandwidth and listening-hours calculators.
What to include
- The website itself: a managed radio website service, a WordPress theme plus hosting, a general builder subscription, or a developer's quote.
- Domain: renews yearly; first-year promotional prices often renew higher.
- Website hosting: included in managed services; separate for self-hosted WordPress.
- Plugins and add-ons: players, schedule plugins, podcast plugins, forms, backups, security.
- Maintenance time: updates, fixes and content changes. Your time has a cost even if you do not invoice it.
What is not in this sheet
Stream hosting, music licensing and automation are separate decisions with their own pricing. Mixing them into a website comparison is how most "cheapest option" tables mislead. For those, see how much a radio station costs and RadioHost Studio's streaming calculators.
For real-world price ranges by approach, read radio station website cost.
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