News portal website development in Dhaka built for traffic, not trophies.
I build Bangla and English news portals for Dhaka publishers. They load fast on Robi 4G and publish in under thirty seconds. They hold up when a story goes viral on Facebook. And they give your ad sales team real inventory to sell. You get one senior developer from start to launch, starting at 50,000 BDT.
From 50,000 BDT. 50% advance. Design approval before code. About 5 years building for Dhaka media.
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Most news portal website development in Dhaka treats the homepage like a landing page. Then a story breaks. Ten thousand readers hit it from Facebook in five minutes, and the shared hosting cracks. The admin panel goes blank. At 11 PM, the editor messages you asking why the breaking news won't publish. I have rebuilt enough of these portals to know the pattern by heart. So I design around it from day one.
I am RH Fardin, a senior website designer and developer. I work with Dhaka publishers, online magazines, community news sites and citizen journalism teams. My portals hold up when traffic spikes. Your reporter can publish from a phone while stuck in Mirpur traffic. Your AdSense and direct ads sit in the right slots, without turning the site into a banner farm.
I have done this for about five years, and I build every project myself. Nothing gets handed to an unnamed junior in a back room.
The Dhaka media market is brutal. You compete with Prothom Alo, Daily Star, Kalbela, Jugantor and a hundred Facebook-first pages. You will not win on budget. You can win on speed and a clean reading experience. You can win with a portal that shows up in Google News and Discover, and a backend your editors enjoy using. That is what I build for. These are the boring basics other Dhaka developers skip, because they are harder than dropping in a free theme.
I work direct, one-on-one. You message me on WhatsApp, and I reply. You approve the design before I write any production code, and that is a written guarantee. A focused news portal website in Dhaka starts at 50,000 BDT. Larger publishing platforms cost 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT. Payment is 50% to start and 50% on launch, by bank transfer, bKash or Nagad. There are no retainers and no recurring fees you did not agree to.
Every part is built for how news works in Dhaka. That means mobile readers, viral spikes, many authors and ad revenue that must cover hosting in month one.
Over 90% of your Dhaka readers will land from Facebook on a mid-range Android over 4G. So I design the portal for that screen and that connection first, and desktop second.
Pages are cached, images are optimised and ads load lazily. Stories open fast even when 20,000 readers hit the same URL after a Facebook share. There is no spinning loader and no white screen of death.
You get a clean URL structure, NewsArticle schema, sitemap_news.xml and AMP-ready templates. Author bios and publish times are wired correctly. So you can apply for Google News and Discover.
There are roles for editor, senior reporter, junior reporter and photographer. Stories move from draft to review to schedule to publish. Bangla and English typing both work cleanly with Avro and Unicode.
Set zones hold AdSense, direct campaigns, sponsored posts and homepage takeovers. Your sales team can sell clear inventory instead of begging for whatever space is free.
The portal is tuned for cPanel hosting from local providers like Hosting Bangladesh, ExonHost and Bytes Hosting. It also runs on a VPS or cloud if you want to scale. I set up caching and a CDN either way.
Three things kill Dhaka news portals: traffic spikes, ad clutter and an editor backend nobody wants to use. Traffic spikes hit the moment a story crosses 5,000 Facebook shares. Cheap shared hosting falls over and the database locks up. Your readers see a 503 error right when your story matters most.
I solve this with full-page caching that serves static HTML to logged-out readers, who are 90%+ of your traffic. I add an image CDN and a database setup that does not re-query the homepage on every hit. It is the same hosting plan with ten times the headroom.
Ad clutter is the second killer. The urge to stuff every centimetre with banners is real. Hosting bills are in dollars, advertisers pay in taka, and AdSense RPMs in Bangladesh are low. But a portal that takes 8 seconds to load loses 60% of mobile readers before they see the headline. Google also demotes it in Discover.
So I plan the ad zones into the layout. Your sales team gets clear inventory to sell, and your AdSense placements pass Core Web Vitals. Your readers actually finish the article. The third issue is the backend. I build on WordPress with a custom editor flow tuned for Bangla typing and scheduled publishing. The dashboard shows what is performing right now. Your reporters get a CMS they will actually use.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point. I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
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Real questions from Dhaka publishers I have spoken with, answered straight.
A focused news portal starts at 50,000 BDT. It covers the homepage, category pages, article template, author pages, search and a working editor backend. A mid-size platform with many sections, video embeds, ad zones and Google News setup is 90,000 BDT. A full multi-author, multi-language portal costs 1,50,000 BDT. It adds custom dashboards, podcast and video sections, and AdSense tuning. Truly custom platforms with mobile apps, paid subscriptions or live blogs start from 3,00,000 BDT.
Yes. I build to the technical rules Google checks. That means permanent URLs, clear publish dates, author bylines, NewsArticle structured data, sitemap_news.xml and clean site navigation. I will not promise Google will approve you, because that is a manual review they do. But I make sure the technical side is not the reason you get rejected.
That is exactly the case I plan for. The portal uses full-page caching, so logged-out readers get static HTML straight from the cache, not a fresh database query. Images go through a CDN. On standard Bangladesh cPanel hosting, you can handle ten to twenty thousand readers at once without going down. For more than that, I will suggest a VPS or Cloudflare in front. I set up both for you at launch.
Yes. The editor supports Unicode Bangla through Avro, Bijoy or Google Input, whatever your team already uses. Headlines, body text, image captions and meta descriptions all support Bangla and English in the same article. Comments, search and category pages all handle Bangla correctly. I test with real Bangla content before launch, not a Lorem Ipsum demo.
I build the ad zones into the layout. I add AdSense auto-ads or manual placements, whichever you prefer. You must apply for your AdSense account yourself. But I make sure the site meets AdSense policies and has the right pages: About, Contact, Privacy and Terms. I place ad slots for both revenue and reader experience. For direct ad sales, I build a simple admin screen where you can swap banners yourself.
You buy hosting from a Dhaka provider in your name. For cPanel, I suggest Hosting Bangladesh, ExonHost or Bytes Hosting. For a VPS, I suggest DigitalOcean or Hetzner. I help you choose based on expected traffic, then set up everything on it. You own the hosting account, the domain and the database from day one. I am not a reseller, and I do not lock you in.
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