Establishing a website for small and medium-sized enterprises often comes with limited budgets. Looking for a web development company, quotes can range from 30,000 to 100,000 yuan.Build it yourself with an open-source CMS, but also worry about the technical threshold and maintenance costs.AnQi CMS provides a compromise solution: open source, free, easy to deploy, and feature-rich.

Let's do a real test to see how much money can be saved by building a corporate website with Anqi CMS.

Break down the cost of website building

The cost of traditional website building methods:

  • Website design and development: 50,000-100,000 RMB
  • Domain registration: 50-100 RMB/year
  • Server hosting: 5,000-15,000 RMB/year
  • SSL certificate: 500-2000 yuan per year
  • Post-maintenance: 5000-20000 yuan per year

The total: approximately 60,000-270,000 yuan in the first year, followed by 55,000-37,000 yuan each subsequent year.

The cost of building with Anqi CMS:

  • Software license: Free (open source version) or 2000 yuan/year (business version)
  • Domain registration: 50-100 RMB/year
  • Server: 1 core 2G about 500 yuan/year
  • SSL certificate: Let's Encrypt free
  • Post-maintenance: self-maintenance or have a technician update regularly, about 3000-5000 yuan per year

Total: approximately 550-2650 yuan in the first year, followed by 3500-7000 yuan per year.

Compared, the self-built method saves at least 50,000 yuan in the first year, and more than 50,000 yuan each subsequent year. For a small and medium-sized enterprise that only needs a corporate website, this account is still very clear.

How high is the technical threshold

Many bosses do not build their own websites because they think the technical threshold is high. However, the deployment method of Anqi CMS greatly reduces the threshold.

Just need: 1. Download the compressed package 2. Unzip it to the server 3. Run the startup command 4. Open the background in the browser 5. Configure the website.The entire process does not require database configuration, does not require installation of PHP or Python, and does not require code compilation.

I had a friend who had no technical knowledge try it out, from downloading to the website going live, it took 15 minutes.The unique difficulty is finding the server's IP address, but it can be solved by Baidu.

Is the function sufficient

What features does the corporate website need? Homepage, About Us, Product Display, News Dynamics, Contact Information.The AnQi CMS template has already built-in these pages, just replace the content.

And Anqi CMS supports custom fields and templates. If your product requires a special display method, you can customize fields in the background without changing the code.

Summary

The core concept of building a website for small and medium-sized enterprises should be: do not spend money if it can be solved with open source, and do not outsource if it can be done independently.AnQi CMS perfectly fits this concept - open source, free, easy to deploy, comprehensive functions, and low maintenance cost.

The money saved, invested in product development and marketing, the ROI will definitely be much higher than spending on a website company.