Over the weekend I was considering "supporting websites". Websites that support the promotion of your small applications (such as phone apps).
Lets say I'm making phone applications, and I just want to throw a website up to act as a landing page. Something I can direct new users to which displays an About page, have an embedded video, etc. I tried doing some calculations for how much something like this would cost, this is what I came up with *AppHarbor / DNSimple* (https://dnsimple.com/pricing & https://appharbor.com/pricing) *Domain registration* - $16 / year *DNS mapping* - $34 / year *Website hosting* - $0 *Website hosting with DNS mapping* - $120 / year *Total $170* / year / application. *Wordpress.com* Domain registration - $5 / year (wordpress upgrade) Domain mapping - $12 / year (wordpress upgrade) Removal of adverts - $36 / year Custom design - $30 *Total $83 / year / application* Both options are probably more than I'll make on most of my small apps. And gets expensive when promoting multiple apps. I could try and get more bang for my buck and extend the site so that it can also host some supporting webservices that my application can use. Are my calculations correct? Is there another way to go about this? How do you guys go about creating small landing pages like this? ("Buying your own server" seems a very heavy handed way to go about it, and I don't want to become a full time sys-admin looking after my own server) -David Burela
