Website Leasing Good or Bad?
April 8th, 2008Would you lease your company website from its designer?
In our daily travels across the web we’ve come across one of our competitors who are prepared to lease websites to their clients.
On the face of it the concept of ‘website leasing’ sounds a good idea.
From the client’s point of view it means they get a large, complex and potentially costly website for their business for a small monthly fee without the outlay of a large amount of capital. This is great if your cash flow is tight or if you’re a new start-up with a limited budget. As such we can understand why the idea might sound attractive to some companies.
However, we believe that whilst the ‘leasing’ concept works fine for commodity capital equipment such as company cars, IT equipment or office furniture; the ‘leasing’ idea has some inherent flaws as a method funding a web development project.
If you’re a business contemplating leasing your next website, here’s some food for thought.
