I am a novice web designer, would I or client pay the web hosting fee?

If you area novice web designer then I agree with what most people say here, the client pays. In fact, I would not even disguise it in your prices, have them establish the service and then provide you the administrator/anonymous FTP access. I think the going rate for novice development of web pages in my area (Texas) is $50 per page. A web designer should get in and get out, which means no continuing requirements with web hosting fees. If, on the other hand, you are a web administrator, then you are talking more long term commitment. The only way I would suggest holding onto the hosting fees if you lease a presence on the web and sub-divide that presence among your clients. Many ISPs allow that and you collect the aggregate coin and pay the one flat rate to the ISP. It's up to you, but novice should stay simple.
I am a novice web designer, would I or client pay the web hosting fee?
At the end of a day, the client always pays.


Whether it be direct, or indirectly through your own invoice, I would show the amount paid for hosting.


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I am a novice web designer, would I or client pay the web hosting fee?
CLIENT, always the client. If you are developing for free the clients needs to pay all other costs such as web page setup and monthly hosting fees.
Reply:Client pays everything. It is after all, the client's website that you are designing. It's not your web site so you would not pay for it, you are doing just the designing of it and for that you get paid.








We do not like to pay for anything, do we? Say 'no'.
Reply:theres two ways, one, if you are only going to charge once, you can charge the annual quota disguized as the web hosting charge, or you can talk to the client, and make the web hosting contract with his credit card, just tell him that as longs as he continue paying the fee, he would have the service, i recommend the yahoo webstarter package, works for our company "crumex" http://www.cru-mex.com
Reply:You would either agree this as a condition when you are charging them, or you include the fee in your payment - which is what i do. I give them the cost and add it to the bill, unless they ask otherwise, and pay the hosting company through my accounts.





Put it this way. If you were to fit a cable box for someone, would you have to pay their subscription?





Id give them the option of paying it to the hosting company, or directly to myself. If you are doing it for free, then no, get them to pay. But also tell them you will maintain the site as part of the deal, i do this for a year then charge them for further maintenance.

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