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The $50 Fiverr website and what you actually get
Fiverr is a market. $50 websites exist. Some are honest small sites from someone who needed a portfolio piece. Some are a copied theme, stock photos of a city you do not live in, and a seller who disappears when the form 404s.
Ask these before you buy a gig
- Do I get the files, or only a login to their account?
- Whose hosting? What happens when the gig is “complete”?
- Will they connect my domain, or a subdomain that dies if I don’t leave a review?
- How many revision rounds, in writing?
- Can I see three live sites, not mockups, with phone numbers that still work?
When a cheap gig is rational
A throwaway landing page for a weekend event. A placeholder while you figure out the business. You have the files in your email when it is done.
When a cheap gig gets expensive
You spend two weeks in the message thread. The site looks like every other gig. You cannot change a phone number without paying a “small extra.” You hire someone else to redo it. That is how $50 becomes $1,050 and a month of delay.
The checkout is on this domain. After you pay, you brief the build. Drafts are proofed before a customer is told it is live. That is the difference between a gig and a shop.
The $49 hosted plan: $49 down, then $49/month.