We’ve simplified the plans. Website hosting is complicated enough, so we have removed the complicated 3 tier paid plans.
The good news is the free tier remains. This is very much a ‘try out’ plan to get the hang of our flavour of WordPress and build up experience.
The treasurer at Sustaining Dunbar (treasurer@sustainingdunbar.org) can take your questions regarding whether hosting fees and how best to pay and make donations.
CORE PLAN: FREE
Our Starter package is still free and comprises a modest 250Mb of storage suitable for very small pdf documents and images. Moreover you can publish an unlimited number of news stories, create as many pages as you like, or just create your very own one page website, which could be as simple as a “link tree”.
The starter plan is just that – you cannot have your own domain.
But you can have your cake and eat it
e.g. https://ourlocality.org/haveyourcakeandeatit
Free websites can look basic or quite cool
The above are completely DIY websites, but there’s no support built in.
Without a plan, if you have a question or a problem, you’ll need to get help from family or a friend
(if your problem is really intractable, like a login issue and absolutely no one can or will help you – contact us).
FREE will suit if you have a small starter website and no budget or perhaps lack time and aspirations for world domination or just want a try out.
If your project is on a mission, then consider a paid plan.
If you feel you cannot afford a full plan, you can make also make a regular donation by standing order, which if more than the cost of a cup of coffee per month will unlock goodwill: ✨💙🌿🌞🌻💫🎉🍀💖🌟🎶🌍🌱💡🚀
DONATE BY STANDING ORDER
There are many many host companies offering excellent free website services so you might want to research these carefully before making a commitment to a Free OurLocality site.
You could save a bit of money … and our time (Nota bene: we don’t get grants or paid to do this).
CORE PAID PLAN: £75/annum
With the paid Plan you get an 1Gb of storage for one site, an unlimited number of pages and posts and the ability to map a single domain that you or we will manage for you – i.e. if we buy it we’ll renew at cost, which for a .org.uk or .co.uk or .uk domain is less than £10/annum.
You will get support via email for the main admin user, but only during our working hours in the working week, siestas, dog walking hours, lazy days or survey days, and holidays excepted, 10:00 – 4:00. e.g. Questions after 4:00pm on a Friday may not get a response until after 10:00am on the Monday!
NB because the support provided is mostly pro bono, outside of those times you may not get an instant reply.
However, the PAID plan is still a DIY plan, you will need to first build and the manage the website; you will have reasonable controls over the site settings but not our network. Unlike self hosting there are design limitations on the service.
If your project is mission critical (e.g. you are depending on leads or income or delivering services to other clients), you may want to consider paying someone to look after your website property – a simple support package might cost you as little as a few hundred pounds, if you have few demands, but if you need someone to create the content for you and be on standby to jump to your request, set aside a few thousand every year!
STANDING ORDER
A paid plan can help you build your online reputation
Extras: £75/annum
You can pay £75/annum for:
- support for additional admins (other user levels e.g. editors and authors will have to ask their own admins for help)
- a 1 hour min. support slot request
- email services mapped to the domain
- an additional domain pointed to either another site or the same site
If you are not ready for or do not want the overhead of managing your own setup our simple paid plan could suit.
For a more a significant web presence which needs unlimited space, multiple websites or complex domain management, we would recommend self-hosting.
Website options are endless, but if you have signficant demands you will probably have a regular income, paid staff and require much more dependable levels of ongoing support, which are not free.
STANDING ORDER
DONATE: £75
For an hour or so of one-to-one support a one-off donation of £75 would be nice …
For a brand new single page site think anything allow 3-6 hours or upwards if you don’t have the brand assets and don’t need it in a single day) … we have made hundreds of websites like this entirely free … which is not sustainable
If you do not have a regular income, do not receive grants, have no paying clients, then you can pay whatever you can afford …