What domain and hosting actually cost in Rajshahi — and where the markup hides
Domain and hosting price in Rajshahi is small money. The expensive part is the lock-in nobody warned you about.
Almost every Rajshahi owner who asks me about domain and hosting price in Rajshahi tells the same story once you scratch the surface. A year or two back, someone set the whole thing up for them — a small IT shop near Shaheb Bazar, a university junior who "does websites," a Facebook page in a campus group promising a full site for 6,000 taka. The domain and the hosting got registered under that person's Gmail and that person's number, not the owner's.
Renewal season arrives, a WhatsApp lands asking for 10,000 or 15,000 taka for "domain, hosting and maintenance," and there is no breakdown anywhere. Question it and the site goes dark. That is not a hosting price. That is a ransom. So when someone in Rajshahi asks me koto taka for domain and hosting, my first reply is a question back: whose email is the account in right now?
Here are the real numbers, flat, because you deserve them without the theatre. A .com domain runs roughly 1,000 to 1,500 taka a year at any honest registrar. A .com.bd through BTCL is cheaper still, though slower to issue and mostly worth it when your audience — students, parents, local patients — is entirely domestic.
Decent shared hosting that will comfortably carry a coaching centre's site, a clinic's profile, a silk house's catalogue or a small online store sits around 3,000 to 8,000 taka a year depending on storage and traffic, and most Rajshahi businesses live perfectly well at the lower end. That is the whole honest annual cost of domain and hosting in Rajshahi: a few thousand taka, not the five-figure "package" you were quoted.
Anything above that is either real hosting muscle you genuinely need, or markup someone is betting you won't question.
When I build your site, the domain and hosting setup is part of the job — not a private revenue stream I keep topping up. I register the domain in your name, on your email, paid however suits you: bKash, Nagad or card. I size the hosting to what your site actually does, not what flatters my invoice.
I configure DNS, SSL, business email on your domain and backups, and then I do the thing most shops in Rajshahi quietly avoid: I hand you the registrar login and the hosting login, written down, with a plain note on what each one is for. You own it outright. If you ever decide to leave me, you take your domain and your site and you walk — no dark site, no hostage call, no awkward bargaining.
Let me be clear about where the money really is. My pricing is for building the site, and that is the genuine investment. Website builds start at 50,000 BDT for a focused business site, 90,000 BDT for a fuller multi-page build, and 1,50,000 BDT for a larger bilingual or product-heavy site, with fully custom work from 3,00,000 BDT.
Always 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and you approve the full design before a single line of code is written. The domain and hosting underneath all of that are the cheap, boring, honest layer — and I keep them cheap, boring and honest on purpose, because that is exactly the part most people in Rajshahi got burned on the first time.
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