Hi Abubakar,

The answer to your question is it depends.

Cherry Hill hosts library websites starting at about $1,200/year. This is
for a fully managed and supported Drupal site that runs on AWS
infrastructure.

If you need a simple site, GitHub sites are very good and free of charge.
You need to become familiar with markdown and Jekyll, but those are not
high hurdles.

Sitebuilders such as Wix are inexpensive and easy to use. They may need a
degree of control over your DNS that might be unacceptable to your
institution.

I manage a Wordpress site for my neighborhood association at hosting.com. I
inherited it and know little about Wordpress, but hosting.com makes it
painless, reliable, and inexpensive. Their fully managed plans start at
$30/month.

Self hosting is great, if you are already paying for a systems engineering
team who will monitor your site 24/7.

Thanks,

Cary Gordon, MLS
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com


On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM Abubakar Tidal <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was curious about your library web server budgets.
>
>
>   *   Do you self-host? How much would estimate the yearly cost is
> including labor/sys administration?
>   *   If you pay for hosting, how much would you estimate the yearly cost
> is to host your site?
>   *   Do you have a dedicated librarian or staff to manage the web server?
>
> Best,
>
> Abubakar R. Tidal, Jr. (he/him/his)
> Chief Librarian and Department Chair
> Ursula C. Schwerin Library
> New York City College of Technology, CUNY
> 300 Jay St
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/300+Jay+St?entry=gmail&source=g>.
> Library Building L544
> Brooklyn, NY 11201
>
> [log in to unmask]
> https://library.citytech.cuny.edu
>