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 owner who asks me about domain and hosting price in Rajshahi tells the same story. A year or two back, someone set it all up for them. It might have been a small IT shop near Shaheb Bazar or a university junior who "does websites". It might have been 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 number, not the owner's. Then renewal season arrives. A WhatsApp asks for 10,000 or 15,000 taka for "domain, hosting and maintenance," with 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, I ask a question back: whose email is the account in right now?
Here are the real numbers, flat, because you deserve them without the drama. A .com domain costs about 1,000 to 1,500 taka a year at any honest registrar. A .com.bd through BTCL is cheaper still. It is slower to issue, and mostly worth it when your audience is fully local, like students, parents or local patients.
Decent shared hosting costs about 3,000 to 8,000 taka a year, based on storage and traffic. That easily carries a coaching centre's site, a clinic's profile, a silk house's catalogue or a small online store. Most Rajshahi businesses do fine at the lower end. So the whole honest yearly cost of domain and hosting in Rajshahi is a few thousand taka, not a five-figure "package". Anything above that is either real hosting power you need, or markup someone hopes you won't question.
When I build your site, the domain and hosting setup is part of the job. It is not a private income 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 really does, not to what flatters my invoice. I set up DNS, SSL, business email on your domain and backups.
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. There is no dark site, no hostage call and no awkward bargaining.
Let me be clear about where the real money is. My pricing is for building the site, and that is the true 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, and 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 a single line of code is written. The domain and hosting underneath are the cheap, boring, honest layer. I keep them that way on purpose, because that is exactly where most people in Rajshahi got burned the first time.
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