A website problem has four possible answers, and they cost between five thousand rupees and fifteen lakh. The expensive mistake is not picking the wrong developer; it is picking the wrong answer and discovering it a year later, when the same complaint returns.
The four routes, priced
| Route | Cost | What it actually changes |
|---|---|---|
| Host migration | from Rs 4,999 | Where the site lives, nothing about the site |
| Speed optimisation | from Rs 5,999 | How fast it loads, not what it says |
| Security hardening | from Rs 7,999 | How it resists and recovers |
| Redesign of a brochure site | from Rs 14,999 | Presentation, on the same structure |
| New brochure build, five to eight pages | Rs 35,000 - Rs 90,000 | Structure, copy and presentation together |
| Custom eCommerce store | Rs 80,000 - Rs 15,00,000 | Catalogue, cart, payments, shipping, returns |
| Web application | Rs 4,00,000 - Rs 15,00,000 | Workflow, accounts, permissions, data |
| Portal, directory or multi-language site | Rs 5,00,000 - Rs 12,00,000 | Content at scale, search, and editorial control |
Read the second column against the third. A redesign at Rs 14,999 and a rebuild at Rs 35,000 differ by twenty thousand rupees and by the entire information architecture.
The difference between redesign and rebuild
A redesign keeps the pages, the navigation and the copy structure, and changes how they look and read. It is the right purchase when the site’s skeleton is sound and its clothes are dated.
A rebuild starts from what the site must do for the business and works backwards to pages, which often produces fewer of them. It costs more because it includes strategy, copywriting, templates and a migration of existing URLs.
Most businesses that ask for a redesign are describing the symptom, not the diagnosis. Slow pages look old; unclear offers look dated. If the problem is the offer, a new palette will not fix it, and you will be having the same conversation next year.
When migration is the whole answer
Changing host is the cheapest meaningful improvement available, and sometimes it is genuinely all that is wrong.
Signs it is enough: the site is slow only under load, the host cannot enable compression or caching, the certificate is a nuisance to renew, or the email and the website are tangled together on one account that nobody controls.
Signs it is not: pages take four seconds on a fast connection, the mobile experience is a different site, or enquiries arrive but never convert. Those are design and content problems wearing a hosting costume.
When a rebuild is cheaper than three repairs
Three repairs in two years usually cost more than one build, and the reason is not the repair fees. It is the compounding: each fix adds a plugin, a patch or a workaround, and the next developer charges more because the last one left no documentation.
The arithmetic that matters is not the invoice. It is the months spent working around the site, plus the enquiries not answered because the form broke quietly.
A rebuild is defensible when the site has had two structural fixes in eighteen months, when the platform is no longer supported, or when a new requirement (payments, accounts, a catalogue) does not fit the current structure at all.
Choosing between an eCommerce build and a web application
A store sells a catalogue. A web application does work: bookings, approvals, records, calculations. If the core of the business is a transaction on a product, it is a store. If it is a process with several steps and several people, it is an application, and it costs three to five times as much.
The confusion is expensive. Businesses buy a store and then ask for workflow, which turns a fixed scope into an open one.
What to get in writing
For any route above Rs 35,000: the page list, the templates, who writes the copy, what happens to existing URLs, and what the handover includes.
For a redesign specifically: whether the current content management system stays, and whether the redesign includes the copy or only the layout. Those two answers move the price by more than the design fee itself.
FAQ
Is Rs 4,999 for a host migration real? It covers a single site moving host with DNS, email records, a staging copy, redirects and a week of monitoring. It does not cover a rebuild, and it does not cover fixing what was already broken.
Can we redesign without losing search rankings? Yes, if URLs, titles and content are preserved and the redirect map is written before launch. Most redesign traffic losses are self-inflicted, not algorithmic.
How long does a rebuild take? Three to eight weeks for a brochure site, six to twenty for a store, and ten to twenty for an application.
Do we need a new domain? Almost never. A new domain resets everything the old one earned.
What if the current site is on a platform we cannot export from? That is a real cost and it belongs in the quote as its own line. Ask before signing, not after.
Website routes in Noida
We quote all four routes from Noida and will tell you when a Rs 4,999 migration is the honest answer rather than a rebuild. Call 7840002466 or send the URL through the contact page.
The software cost comparison places these figures beside every other category we build.
