Hosting
Squarespace offers the most comprehensive package for a startup: A website builder, Subscription based transactions, marketing and SEO tools, user account and database capabilities etc. ($40/month = $480/Year) The low cost will be essential for the early days of the company.
Eventually, the company will move towards dedicated hosting via 1&1 Ionos, as it is extremely important for us to provide our customers with excellent user-experience with website delivery speeds and provide extra security for their information that they entrust us with. An SSD based dedicated server costs an average of $100/month. Which will be ideal for a high user volume and the SSD will provide even smoother visits. Additionally, we intend on using ‘Recurly’ a billing service for subscription based services. They provide additional finance and billing related security such as two factor authentication and fraud management options. Recurly is also associated with major subscription based companies such as Twitch, SlingTV, etc Cost of the basic core package is $99 a month making it roughly $1200 a year. It will be ideal for when the business becomes High volume and it offers two additional upgrades past the $99/month Core Package.