Your Professional Website. Built For $0 Upfront.

For a small business in the United States, a professionally designed website typically costs between $2,000 and $10,000 upfront when built by an agency or freelance designer. Simple brochure sites sit at the lower end, while sites with many pages, custom functionality, or e-commerce reach well beyond $10,000. That quoted figure is only the build, though. Hosting usually adds $10 to $60 per month, domain renewal $15 to $40 per year, maintenance plans $50 to $300 per month, and content changes are commonly billed at $75 to $150 per hour. Most agency-built sites are also redesigned every three to four years, which restarts the cycle. Counting all of it, the realistic five-year cost of an agency website is frequently $6,000 to $15,000. A managed website subscription replaces that unpredictable total with one monthly figure – AlfaLobos is $0 upfront and $49 per month with design, domain, hosting, security, maintenance, and support included.

It depends on what you need and how you prefer to spend. Paying upfront makes sense when you require genuinely custom functionality, have capital available, and already have someone to maintain the site afterwards. For most small businesses, none of those three are true. A monthly website subscription removes the capital barrier, converts an unpredictable set of costs into a single operating expense, and keeps the provider responsible for the site long after launch. That last point matters more than the price. A designer paid in full at launch has no remaining reason to keep your site fast, secure, and current; a provider billing monthly under a cancel-anytime arrangement has to keep earning it. Over five years a $49 monthly subscription totals about $2,940 with everything included, which is usually less than an agency build plus hosting, maintenance, and an eventual redesign.

A genuine managed website service covers everything required to keep a professional site working, not just the design. With AlfaLobos that means a custom website designed around your business, domain registration in your business name, fast and secure hosting, an SSL certificate, mobile optimization, ongoing maintenance and security updates, content updates when your business changes, an SEO-friendly technical foundation, analytics support, and access to a real support team. Nothing on that list generates a separate invoice. The distinction worth checking with any provider is what triggers extra charges – many services described as managed still bill hourly for content updates, or exclude maintenance entirely. Ask for the inclusion list and the exclusion list in writing before you commit, whoever you choose.

Standalone website maintenance plans generally run $50 to $300 per month depending on scope, and emergency work when something breaks is typically billed at $75 to $200 per hour. Proper maintenance covers software and security updates, automated off-site backups, uptime and SSL monitoring, performance checks, form testing, content corrections, broken link fixes, and periodic search health review. The cost of skipping it is higher than the cost of doing it. Unmaintained sites are the ones that get compromised through known vulnerabilities, display browser security warnings to customers, lose inquiries to contact forms that failed silently weeks earlier, and slide down search results as speed and freshness decline. With AlfaLobos, maintenance is included in the $49 monthly subscription rather than sold as an add-on.

Yes. Local businesses are the core of what we do. AlfaLobos builds websites for contractors, roofers, electricians, HVAC companies, plumbers, landscapers, restaurants, medical and dental practices, attorneys, real estate professionals, home services companies, beauty businesses, automotive shops, and professional service firms. Every site is built around how local customers actually search and decide: clear services, visible service areas, tap-to-call on mobile, short inquiry forms, and trust signals such as licensing and real project photography. We are based in Miami, Florida and work bilingually in English and Spanish with businesses across the United States, which matters for the many local markets where a Spanish-speaking audience is a significant share of customers.

Yes, and most businesses do. Your website should follow the business rather than freeze at whatever you needed in month one. Additional pages for new services, expanded service area pages, more detailed content, updated photography, new booking or inquiry flows, and deeper SEO work can all be added as you grow. Because AlfaLobos is a managed subscription rather than a delivered project, these changes happen inside the existing relationship – you request them, we build them, and nothing has to be rebuilt from scratch. This is one of the practical differences from a one-time agency build, where every change after launch is a new quote and every few years the whole site is replaced because it became too outdated to extend.

No. AlfaLobos starts with $0 upfront, and your $49 per month subscription only begins after your website is completed, approved by you, and launched. The reason we structure it this way is that the upfront cost is the single biggest reason small businesses postpone getting a professional website for years – a $3,000 quote competes directly with equipment, inventory, or hiring. Removing it also changes the incentives on our side: we are not paid until you have something you are happy with, and we only continue being paid while the service remains worth keeping. There is no setup fee, no design fee, no launch fee, and no separate charge for connecting your domain or configuring hosting and security.

After you submit your information, our team reviews your business details and prepares a design plan built around your services, your customers, and the way people search for what you do. We will ask for your content, branding, and any photography you have – and guide you if you do not have those ready. You will then review a complete website, request adjustments, and approve it before anything goes live. Most AlfaLobos websites are ready to review within 7 to 14 days, with the timeline depending mostly on how quickly business information and photos can be shared. Billing begins only once your site is live and you are satisfied with it, and from that point onward the site is managed, hosted, secured, and updated for you.

Yes. Your business domain name belongs to your business and is registered in your business name, not ours. This matters more than most owners realise until they try to leave a provider. A domain registered in a web designer's name can become genuinely difficult to recover, and it is one of the most common ways small businesses end up trapped with a service they have outgrown. AlfaLobos registers and manages your domain as part of the subscription so renewals never lapse and configuration stays correct, but ownership stays with you throughout. If you already own a domain, we connect it to your new website at no additional cost and you keep it exactly where it is.

Yes, and there is no hourly charge for keeping your own information current. Contact our team whenever you need updates – new services, revised pricing, seasonal hours, staff changes, fresh project photography, additional sections, or an entirely new page. You do not need technical experience, and you do not need to log into anything. This is a deliberate difference from both agency and DIY models. With an agency, a five-minute text change often triggers a minimum billing increment, so owners stop asking and the site slowly becomes inaccurate. With a DIY builder, the work lands on you and competes with running the business. Under a managed subscription, keeping the site accurate is simply part of the service.

You can cancel at any time with no long-term contract, no notice period, and no penalty. Your domain, your content, your branding, and your business identity always belong to you and leave with you. Contact our team and we will explain the available transfer options and help move your domain wherever you want it to go. We take this position because a cancel-anytime arrangement is the clearest accountability a service provider can offer: if AlfaLobos stops being worth $49 per month, you should be able to leave immediately. Long lock-in contracts usually indicate a provider that expects to stop earning the relationship at some point and wants to keep billing anyway.

They solve different problems. Wix and Squarespace are tools you operate yourself – you choose a template, design the pages, write the content, configure the settings, and take responsibility for maintenance, performance, and search visibility. The platform fee looks inexpensive because your time is not on the invoice, but most business owners spend 20 to 60 hours on a first build and the result usually looks self-made. AlfaLobos is a done-for-you managed service: we design the site, build it, host it, secure it, maintain it, and update it for one predictable monthly price. If you genuinely enjoy design work and have time available, a DIY builder can work well. If your time is better spent serving customers, a managed service costs less than you think once your hours are counted honestly.

Every AlfaLobos website includes the SEO foundation as standard: crawlable page structure, unique titles and meta descriptions, proper heading hierarchy, structured data, an XML sitemap, mobile optimization, and fast hosting. That foundation is what allows search engines and AI assistants to understand what your business does and where it operates, and it is the part most small business sites are missing entirely. Beyond the foundation, competitive SEO is an ongoing discipline rather than a setting – content development, local SEO for map pack visibility, service area pages, and authority building take months of consistent work. Those expanded services are available for businesses that want to compete aggressively in search.

Yes. Domain registration is included in the $49 per month subscription with no separate charge and no renewal invoice to track. We register the domain in your business name, manage the technical configuration, and keep renewals current so your site never goes dark because a renewal notice went to an inbox nobody checks – a surprisingly common way small businesses lose their web presence overnight. If you already own a domain, we connect it to your new website instead, at no extra cost and with no change to your ownership. Either way, the professional web address customers see, remember, and type is part of the service rather than an add-on.

AlfaLobos does. Hosting, SSL certificates, security patching, software updates, backups, uptime monitoring, performance tuning, content updates, and ongoing improvements are all handled by our team as part of the subscription. This is the part of website ownership that most often goes wrong, because maintenance is important but never urgent – it loses to every other demand on a business owner's week until something breaks. Sites that nobody maintains get compromised, slow down, drift out of date, and quietly lose search visibility. Under a managed subscription the responsibility sits with us, and you have a specific team to contact rather than a designer who stopped answering emails two years after launch.

Yes. AlfaLobos is month-to-month with no contract, no minimum term, and no cancellation penalty. You keep your domain and your content. We built the offer this way on purpose: when a provider can be left at any moment, they have to keep the site fast, current, and producing inquiries in order to stay. That is a much stronger guarantee of service quality than any promise in a sales conversation. Before signing with any website provider – including us – ask specifically what the cancellation terms are, who the domain is registered to, and what happens to the site afterwards. Those three answers tell you almost everything about how the relationship will go.

None at all. AlfaLobos is built for business owners rather than developers, and the technical work is entirely on our side – hosting configuration, SSL, DNS, security, performance, structured data, and updates. What we need from you is the part only you can provide: what your business does, who it serves, where it operates, what makes it different, and any photographs of your work. We guide you through gathering that, and we will tell you plainly if something you have shared is not going to work well. If you can describe your business to a customer, you can get a professional website launched.

Most AlfaLobos websites launch within 7 to 14 days of receiving your business information. The timeline depends far more on content than on build time – businesses that already have their services, descriptions, and photographs ready tend to be live within a week, while those still gathering material take a little longer. The sequence is straightforward: you share your business details, we design and build the site, you review it and request adjustments, and we launch once you approve. Billing does not begin until that point. If you have a hard deadline such as a seasonal peak or a scheduled marketing push, tell us at the start and we will work to it.