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The $3,000 website that cost $40,000

  • 7 min read
  • Updated Jul 2026
Vidur Ratna Vidur Ratna Studio Lead @ Bronte

What a business website really costs over five years: build, hosting, maintenance, licences, the rebuild cycle, and the customers a cheap site quietly loses. With real New Zealand pricing and an interactive calculator to run your own numbers.

The $3,000 website that cost $40,000
A taste of what's inside

The cheapest website to build is almost never the cheapest to own. The average site is rebuilt every 2 years 7 months, so a budget build gets redone twice in five years while a proper one lasts the whole stretch. Here's the real five-year number, line by line, with NZ pricing.

What you'll learn

  • The true 5-year cost of an NZ business website (build is under half of it)
  • Why the average site is rebuilt every 2 years 7 months — and how to avoid it
  • Real Bronte pricing: Blocks, Base, Builds, and H/M/D hosting plans
  • How day-one build choices (CPTs + ACF vs Elementor/Divi) decide your ongoing cost
  • An interactive calculator to compare a budget build vs a built-right one

Read the full 5-year breakdown

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