Website Costings

  • Reference Number: 2591
  • Date released: 21 July 2010

Request

To help assist with a study in to cost effectiveness of public sector websites, can you please provide me with:

  1. design and development costs to launch (single figure)
  2. ongoing hosting, licensing and maintenance costs (per year or other suitable measure)
  3. brief overview of server technologies used (e.g. Microsoft .NET, Apache/PHP, etc.)

I fully understand that contractual agreements, tender documents and other materials may be commercial in confidence, but do hope that you can assist with indication of costs and technology as other forces have done for me already.

Response

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Question 1

Total Fee £76,550.00

Question 2

Total Annual Fee £12,600.00

Question 3

brief overview of server technologies used (e.g. Microsoft .NET, Apache/PHP, etc.)

The site was built using the Alterian CMC which is built upon the Microsoft.NET framework

Staging Web/CMS Server:

  • 1 x Web Servers: Single QuadCore 4GB RAM with 2 x 73GB SCSI Disks in a RAID1 ConfigurationCMS/Application Server:
  • 1 X Live web/CMS/Database Server: Single Dual/QuadCore 4GB RAM with 2 x 73GB SCSI Disks in a RAID1 Configuration.

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