The honest answer on domain and hosting price in Chittagong: the domain is cheap, and the hosting is cheaper than you've been told. The trap is who holds the password.
I am RH Fardin, a senior solo designer and developer. I build sites for Chattogram businesses and set up the domain and hosting straight, in your own name. Many owners around Agrabad, GEC and the port get a vague "yearly maintenance" quote. It hides a 900-taka domain inside a 15,000-taka bill. I don't work that way. I tell you the real registrar cost and the real hosting cost. I set both up under your email and your bKash, and I hand you the logins.
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Almost every Chattogram owner who asks me about domain and hosting price in Chittagong has the same story. Someone set up their domain and hosting a year or two ago. It might be a local IT shop near the GEC end. It might be a cousin who "does websites," or a Facebook page promising a full site for 8,000 taka. The accounts sit under that person's email and that person's number.
Then renewal time comes. The owner gets a WhatsApp asking for 12,000 or 18,000 taka for "domain, hosting and maintenance," with no breakdown. Refuse to pay and the site goes dark. That is not a hosting price. That is a hostage fee. So when someone in Chittagong asks me koto taka for domain and hosting, I answer with a question. Whose name is the account in right now?
Here are the real numbers, because you deserve them flat. A .com domain costs about 1,000 to 1,500 taka a year at any honest registrar. A .com.bd, run through BTCL, is cheaper still. It is slower to issue, and it is worth it mainly if your buyers are local. Solid shared hosting for a business site or a small store costs about 3,000 to 8,000 taka a year. The price depends on storage and traffic.
For most Chattogram trading firms, importers, clinics and shops, the lower end is plenty. So the full honest yearly cost of domain and hosting in Chittagong is a few thousand taka. It is not the five-figure "package" you may have been handed. Anything above that is either heavy hosting you truly need, or markup someone hopes you won't question.
When I build a site for you, the domain and hosting setup is part of the job. It is not a side income I milk. I register the domain in your name, on your email, paid however you like: bKash, Nagad or card. I set up hosting sized to what your site really needs, not oversold. I set up DNS, SSL, business email on your domain, and backups.
Then I do what most shops in Chittagong never will. I hand you the registrar login and the hosting login, and I write down what each one is. You own it. If you ever want to leave me, you take your domain and your site and you go. No ransom, no dark site, no awkward call.
To be clear about where the money is: my pricing is for building the site. That is the real investment. Website builds start at 50,000 BDT for a focused business site. A fuller multi-page build is 90,000 BDT. A larger bilingual or product-heavy site is 1,50,000 BDT. Fully custom work starts from 3,00,000 BDT.
It is always 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. You approve the full design before I write a single line of code. The domain and hosting under all of that are the cheap, boring, honest part. I keep them that way on purpose.
Six things should be normal for domain and hosting in Chittagong but rarely are. All six are how I set up every site I ship.
Your domain and hosting sit under your email, your number and your bKash, not mine. You hold the logins from day one. Nobody can ever hold your site for ransom at renewal.
You see the real domain cost and the real hosting cost as separate lines. That is how an honest registrar bills them. No mystery "yearly maintenance" lump hiding a 1,000-taka domain inside a 15,000-taka invoice.
A port-city trading firm's profile site and a busy online store need different hosting. I match the plan to your real traffic. You don't pay for a dedicated server you'll never fill.
If your buyers are overseas suppliers and principals, pick .com. If they're local, .com.bd through BTCL can fit. I tell you which one serves your business. I don't default to whatever pays me more.
Your contact line reads [email protected]. It is not a Gmail address that a foreign buyer in the Gulf or Singapore quietly distrusts. I set it up properly so your quotes don't land in spam.
I tell you in writing what the domain and hosting renew at each year. It is a few thousand taka, and you get the real figure. You can renew them yourself or have me do it. Either way, the number never surprises you.
Hardly anyone in Chattogram who asks koto taka for hosting cares about the few thousand taka itself. After one bad experience, the real question is this: am I about to get locked in again? It is a fair fear. Many small operators around the city follow the same playbook. They register everything under their own control. They quote a fat all-in "yearly" figure with no breakdown.
Then they rely on one fact. A busy importer or shop owner has no time to learn DNS and no leverage once the site is live. The price is never the trap. The ownership is the trap. A 900-taka domain becomes a 15,000-taka yearly bill. That's not because hosting is expensive in Bangladesh, because it isn't. It's because the person with the login knows how painful it is for you to move.
I built my whole approach around removing that pressure. A client who feels free refers me to the next firm in Agrabad. So I keep the domain and hosting cheap, honest and yours. I tell you the real registrar price. I set up hosting that fits your site, not hosting that fattens my margin. I put both accounts in your name, hand you the passwords and write down the renewal figures. No yearly ambush.
The money in working with me is the site I design and build, from 50,000 BDT. The design is approved before any code is written. The domain and hosting are the plumbing. Good plumbing is cheap, it is in your name, and you should never have to think about it again. That, far more than the exact taka figure, is the real answer to domain and hosting price in Chittagong.
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Straight answers to what Chattogram business owners ask me about domain and hosting in their first WhatsApp message.
The honest yearly cost is small. A .com domain is about 1,000 to 1,500 taka a year. Solid shared hosting for a business site or small store is about 3,000 to 8,000 taka a year, based on storage and traffic. So the total is a few thousand taka per year. It is not the 12,000 to 18,000 "package" some shops quote. The real investment is the website, which I build from 50,000 BDT. I register both in your name, paid by bKash, Nagad or card, and hand you the logins.
It's common, and it's how people get locked in. A real bill shows the domain and the hosting as separate, honest lines. Together they cost a few thousand taka. When everything is mashed into one vague "maintenance" figure, it usually hides a cheap domain inside a big markup. The accounts are often under their control, not yours. Ask for the itemised renewal cost. Ask whose name the domain is registered under. If they can't answer both clearly, that's your warning.
Yours, always. I set up the domain registrar account and the hosting account under your email, your number and your bKash. I hand you both logins with a note on what each one is. You own it outright. If you ever choose to work with someone else, you take your domain and your site and leave. No ransom, no dark site. Most shops in Chittagong won't do this, because the lock-in is how they keep you paying.
It depends on who you want to reach. Your buyers might be overseas: suppliers in China, principals in Singapore, or Gulf buyers judging whether your port-city firm is real. Then go .com. It looks established and registers instantly. If your customers are local, a .com.bd through BTCL can fit. It is slower to issue and needs trade-licence paperwork. I'll tell you which one serves your business, not whichever earns me more.
You can use your existing hosting if it's decent. I'll check it first. I'll tell you honestly whether it will run your new site fast on real Chittagong 4G, or whether it's the bottleneck. If it's a cheap oversold plan crawling at 7 to 9 seconds, I'll suggest moving. The account stays in your name either way. I don't resell hosting at a markup. I set it up at the real price, so your domain and hosting cost stays honest.
Whichever you prefer. Both accounts are in your name, so you can renew them yourself in a few minutes. Or send me a WhatsApp and I'll handle it. Either way, I give you the renewal figures in writing up front. It is the real few-thousand-taka cost, not a surprise. The whole point is that you never face the renewal-time ambush that sent you searching for domain and hosting price in Chittagong in the first place.
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