What a custom website costs
Honest pricing.
No agency markup. No surprises.
Custom websites start at $2,500 flat. Monthly plans start at $150. You own everything I build, and you can walk away with the whole site any month you want.
Website Design & Build
Custom websites built around your business goals, not a template. Every project is scoped to fit your needs and budget.
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- Custom layout & visual design, no templates
- Mobile-first, fast-loading, accessible
- SEO foundation built in from day one
- Contact forms, integrations & launch setup
- Informational, service, or client-portal style
Monthly plans for hosting, SEO, and content
Monthly Plans
Month-to-month. No contracts. Cancel anytime.
Every ChegTech monthly plan is month to month, with no contracts and no setup fees, and they build on each other in a simple ladder. Website Hosting & Maintenance ($150/mo) keeps your site fast, secure, and backed up. The Monthly SEO & Content Retainer ($350/mo) adds the work that gets you found: monthly SEO, Google Business Profile management, and new content. Lead Capture & Follow-up ($550/mo) layers in missed-call text-back and automated follow-up, so the calls and form fills your marketing earns don't slip away when you can't answer the phone. Full SEO + Content + Ads ($650 to $850/mo) adds Google Ads and conversion optimization for businesses ready to scale paid and organic at once. You can move up, down, or cancel any month, and you own the website either way.
Website Hosting & Maintenance
The foundation of every plan. Your site, running flawlessly.
- Managed hosting
- SSL & security monitoring
- Daily backups
- Ongoing maintenance
- 1 to 2 hours of edits per month
Monthly SEO & Content Retainer
Get found. Rank month over month.
- Everything in Website Hosting & Maintenance
- Monthly SEO updates
- Google Business Profile management
- Monthly content (articles & landing pages)
- Service area pages
Lead Capture & Follow-up
Get found AND stop losing the leads you already get.
- Everything in Monthly SEO & Content Retainer
- Missed-call text-back (auto-reply the moment you miss a call)
- Website chat widget that texts you the conversation
- Automated follow-up for web and Google Business Profile leads
- Simple lead pipeline so you see every lead land
- Built, managed, and white-labeled by me
Full SEO + Content + Ads
The full funnel. Attract, convert, and scale at once.
- Everything in Lead Capture & Follow-up
- Google Ads campaign management
- Ad copywriting & A/B testing
- Conversion rate optimization on landing pages
- Priority same-day support
- Quarterly strategy call
Ad spend paid separately by the client, directly to Google. $1,500 to $3,000/mo of ad spend is typical for visible local results. See the Google Ads service.
Listing & Content Updates
For listing-heavy businesses with frequently changing content. Add it to any plan when galleries, catalogs, or profiles change often.
What's included
- Everything in Website Hosting & Maintenance
- Photo uploads & gallery updates
- Listing & profile updates
- Priced by content volume
Plan comparison
- 01Website Hosting & Maintenance$150/mo
- 02Monthly SEO & Content Retainer$350/mo
- 03Lead Capture & Follow-up$550/mo
- 04Full SEO + Content + Ads$650 to 850/mo
“ChegTech was the best fit for my Business! Took every detail into consideration, and helped me turn my vision into a reality. I dreaded the thought of needed to get a website built for my HVAC Business, and between the hundreds of spam calls and pushy sales rep. I took the time to research and call a few Web designers, ChegTech was the perfect fit. Not only are they local to me, but they made sure everything was done to my satisfaction. Love the Website, and will continue to recommend ChegTech to everyone I come across!”
Why not just use Squarespace, Wix, or Lovable?
Subscription site builders and AI site generators are real options. Here's how they actually compare on the specs that decide whether a small business site ranks and converts.
Detailed comparisons live on the Squarespace alternative, Wix alternative, GoDaddy alternative, Hibu alternative, Lovable alternative, and Replit alternative pages.
The price is the same whatever you do, but what gets built changes by trade. The four briefs are web design for the trades, outdoor and property services, professional and storefront businesses, and health and specialty practices.
You rent the platform.
Squarespace, Wix, and Lovable all keep your site on their platform. If you stop paying, the site goes with them. My clients get the source files, host anywhere, keep everything, walk away any month with the work intact.
Design freedom is capped.
Squarespace and Wix start from a template. Lovable and similar AI builders start from a prompt, different limit, same problem: the layout decisions are pre-baked. A custom build is designed around your actual brand and market.
Code quality shows up in rankings.
Page builders and AI-generated sites ship a lot of JavaScript and inconsistent HTML. Core Web Vitals and SEO-rendered HTML matter for ranking. A hand-coded site is lean by default, that's the gap that compounds over months on Google.
Pricing reflects publicly listed plans as of 2026 and may change. Lighthouse scores are typical ranges based on PageSpeed Insights audits of small-business sites on each platform.
Pricing questions,
answered honestly.
I start at $2,500 flat for a custom build, one-time, no hourly billing. Most service-business sites finish at the $2,500 starting price. If you need extra functionality (custom portals, large gallery infrastructure, multilingual setup), I quote that up front so there are no surprises.
Yes. Every monthly plan is month-to-month. No contracts, no minimum term. If you cancel, you keep the website. You own the files outright and can host them anywhere.
Website Hosting & Maintenance includes 1 to 2 hours of edits per month. Additional edits beyond that bill at $30/hr. Most months you'll never touch the cap, small text/photo swaps and one or two updates is typical.
Most agencies charge $5,000 to $15,000 for a custom site because they have an office, an account team, a sales rep, and a designer who hands work off to a developer. I'm one person working from home in Auburn. The $2,500 is the actual cost of the work when you remove the agency overhead.
Perfect. I'll point the existing domain to the new site at launch and walk you through any DNS changes. You keep ownership of the domain, I don't take registrar control of anything you already own.
No. The build is a one-time fee. The monthly plans are all month-to-month. You can change plans, pause, or cancel any month with no penalty.
Ready to get started?
Tell me which plan you're interested in or ask any questions. I respond within one business day, usually sooner.
Want to see what's actually included? View my services page for the full breakdown.