Site Hosting & Design

CruTech offers both hosting and basic website design specifically targeted at staff, movements and ministries connected to Cru. This covers metro teams, single-campus missional teams, summer projects and basically anything else that is directly connected to your ministry (anything that would be reimbursable). Preference is given to sites connected with the MidAtlantic Region.

As I have wrestled with my costs to provide the hosting as well as costs that I will probably continue to incur as I investigate tech options related to ministry I have come up with what I see as a fair cost for hosting and design.

Costs

Hosting/year:
$30-50 (one year minimum)

One-Time Design and Basic Training for Self-Updating:
$30-50 minimum, negotiable
($5-25 for set up, $25 for basic design – see examples below)

Domain Name Registration
$10 (This is the cost of registering the domain name. You can register it yourself and take care of it yourself if you can find a cheaper place to do it, but I will not be able to manage it for you any cheaper than this.)

I am not available to update your website regularly, if this is absolutely necessary we might be able to work out a payment plan for this.

All costs are per site set up, design and hosting, here are some real-life examples:

  • http://www.WesternPACru.com & http://www.PghCru.com would only be charged $30 for hosting per year because the PghCru.com domain merely redirects to WesternPACru.com and does not require extra hosting space or bandwidth.
  • http://pitt.WesternPACru.com (no longer exists) is a subdomain of the site and would not incur another Hosting fee, but would require another $5 set up fee (and $25 if it required another design).
  • If you have two different websites one for your local movement and one for a summer project, they will require two separate “accounts” and will require separate setup and hosting fees. For example the same local leader who owns http://www.WesternPACru.com leads the Ocean City, MD summer project and owns http://www.OCSummerProject.com and would pay $60 total for the separate websites.

I reserve the right to make exceptions to these rules as necessary, but to be fair to all of the movements that would be interested I will make these very rare and for either very good reason or basic design reasons.

Payment Methods

The only way that I will be able to accept payment is through a staff account transfer. I am not set up for PayPal, check, credit card or any other payment method. I may look into these, but I am not planning on using them any time in the near future.

The money is not going to my staff account, it will be filtered back to CruTech’s mission of helping to equip Cru staff to make the best use of available technology.

Design

All designs will be done using WordPress which is an flexible and extendible platform for website creation. I can also do straight HTML design, but make no promises about expandability or ease of updates if we go that way.

Some examples of sites that I have built and currently host:

Signing Up

If you are at all interested in this web-hosting option, please email me at jayson@crutech.org to set it up.