How do you start an entertainment website?
April 29, 2010 by MrAuthor
Filed under Entertainment
I would like to start an entertainment website, I would like to know the following:
Is the start- up cost minimal?
Does it cost a lot to maintain the site?
What should I know or do before starting an entertainment websit
"Entertainment Web site" is such a broad term… What exactly do you want to do and how do you plan to make money off of it? Celebrity gossip and online games are both entertainment, but technology involved is very different.
Anyhow, on to your questions…
Is the start-up cost minimal? Define "minimal"… You will need four things: domain name, hosting, content, and content management software.
Domain name can be registered for about $10/year.
Cost of hosting will depend on the amount of traffic you expect to handle. Initially, you can get away with paying less than $10/month, but as your site grows (hopefully), you may need to migrate to a more robust (and more expensive) hosting solution.
Content is the biggest unknown. You can produce it on your own, pay someone else to produce it, syndicate it from elsewhere, or do a combination of any or all.
Content management software can be had for free if you deploy on Linux (there are plenty of stable and robust content management systems written in PHP and Python), but you will need to customize the system’s visual appearance, which will probably cost you a few hundred dollars.
Does it cost a lot to maintain the site? Depends on what kind of hosting you have and how much traffic you handle. At a minimum, you will have to pay the monthly hosting fee. If you generate a lot of traffic, your hosting company will charge you for over-the-limit bandwidth.
What should you know or do before starting an entertainment website? Figure out the content. What it is going to be, who is going to produce it, how much it will cost, etc.