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DEXATRONLLC
Websites

A website you own outright, at a published price

A fixed six-page site is $2,950. Hosting is $25, $89 or $179 a month. Email is $9 a seat. Those are the prices — not starting-at figures, and not a range that narrows once you have sat through a discovery meeting.

Any vendor will quote you a monthly number. The question the monthly number is usually asked instead of is what happens if you stop paying it. That one is answered alongside, in writing, before you call.

You own it. All of it. From day one.
Not on completion of a term. Not while the invoices keep clearing. On final payment, with no ongoing condition attached.
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The design, the code, the content, the database
Yours outright on final payment, with no ongoing condition attached to keeping it.
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Your domain, registered in your name
In your registrar account, on your card. We never hold it. There is no transfer fee, because there is nothing to transfer.
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Your Microsoft or Google tenant
You are the owner of it. We are an administrator on it. Those are different things and the difference matters on the day you want us gone.
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A clean exit, at no charge
30 days' notice, no early-termination fee, and a complete export — source files, database, DNS records and credentials — within 10 business days.
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No hostage-taking, ever
We do not deactivate sites. We do not charge you to reuse your own design. We do not charge you to release your own domain.
The question to ask everyone

“If I stop paying, do I keep the site, the design files, and the domain?”

Ask it of any vendor quoting you a monthly price, and ask for the answer in writing. Ours is above. As of August 2026, of six vendors selling monthly website leases into Southeast Louisiana, not one publishes an answer.

Which track you're on

Two different products, priced separately

A fixed-scope small-business website and a custom software engagement are not the same thing bought in two sizes. They carry different scope, different risk and different work, so they are published as two tracks rather than one range with a very wide mouth.

Track one

Fixed-scope websites

$2,950
one-time, six pages, about three weeks

A site that presents your business and collects inquiries. Every line item it can carry is priced further down this page, including the hosting and the email.

Six named pages: Home, About, Contact with a working form, Privacy, Terms, 404
Further static pages, and Blog, News or FAQ content you publish yourself
Hosting, backup, monitoring and care on a published monthly tier
Email on your own domain, set up properly and run for a flat seat price
Enquire
Track two

Custom Software & Web

4–16 weeks
scoped and quoted per engagement

Practice line 03, unchanged. Software that happens to be reached through a browser: it holds accounts, stores records, and talks to systems you already run.

Accounts, logins, roles and permissions
Client portals, dashboards and internal tools
Integrations with systems you already run, and API design
E-commerce with real inventory and fulfilment behind it
Legacy modernization, database design and migration, audit trails
Enquire
Where the line falls, so you can place yourself before you call

If the site publishes content — pages, posts, news, answers — and collects inquiries through a form, it is a fixed-scope website and its whole price list is on this page. The moment somebody has to log in, or the site has to read or write data in another system you run, it stops being a website and becomes software, and it is quoted as software.

That threshold is the same whether the work comes out at $2,950 or at the top of the published $12k–$108k custom range. The $2,950 price is not a reduction in what custom software costs. It is a smaller, different, fully specified product, and pricing it openly is what lets the custom range stay honest at the other end.

The build

What the website costs

Fixed scope means the six pages are named before anything is signed, and anything not on the list has a published price rather than a conversation later.

Website Creation — fixed 6-page brochure site
Home · About · Contact with working form · Privacy · Terms · 404
$2,950
Additional static page
Priced per page, or five at once for less
$225 or $900 for five
CMS foundation
Editor logins and roles, a media library, the editorial workflow and content backup, plus a live training session and a written guide. Charged once, with the first interactive type you buy.
$850
Blog content type
Post type with a paginated listing and a detail template, categories and tags, an author field, RSS, per-post SEO and social preview, related posts and an archive.
+$1,100
News content type
Date-ordered listing, detail template, press-release structured data and an archive. Where the Blog is bought too, News reuses its listing machinery — fewer parts, lower price.
+$750
FAQ content type
Question-and-answer type with category grouping, an accordion, FAQPage structured data and a filter that runs in the reader's browser.
+$650
AI managed FAQ page
An FAQ page backed by a knowledge base that the AI keeps updated as it learns.
$850 + AI tokens
Content Engine bundle
Blog, News and FAQ together, CMS foundation included. The same three à la carte come to $3,350.
$2,850
Any other custom content type
Services, Team, Projects, Locations, Events, Testimonials — quoted per type
$650–$1,100
50% deposit at signature, 50% at launch · about three weeks · fixed scope, with the six pages named above.

A page is a page. A blog is a publishing system you will operate yourself for the next five years. That is why one is $225 and the other is $1,100.

The CMS foundation is charged once, with whichever interactive type you buy first, because the second one genuinely costs less to build than the first.
After launch

Hosting and care

Three tiers, month to month, cancellable on 30 days' notice. Annual prepay is twelve months for eleven on every one of them, and there is no setup fee on any of them.

Tier 1 — Host

$25/mo
or $275 a year prepaid · twelve months for eleven
No included work time.
Hosting, SSL and CDN
Daily off-site backup
Uptime monitoring and DNS management
Contact-form deliverability monitoring

Tier 2 — Host + Care

$89/mo
or $979 a year prepaid · twelve months for eleven
0.5 hr of work time a month, email support included in it. Unused time rolls over up to 90 minutes within a quarter.
Everything in Tier 1
Monthly platform, dependency and security updates
Monthly health report

Tier 3 — Host + Care + Retainer

$179/mo
or $1,969 a year prepaid · twelve months for eleven
1.5 hrs of work time a month, email support included in it. Unused time rolls over up to 4.5 hours within a quarter.
Everything in Tier 2
Staging environment
Quarterly performance and SEO health pass
Priority response

The gap between cheap shared hosting and a care plan is not hosting. It is about an hour of a developer's time.

So the time is on the label rather than left to be inferred: half an hour a month on Tier 2, an hour and a half on Tier 3, email support drawing on the same pool, and anything beyond it billed at $125/hr — a rate published here rather than introduced by invoice.
Email

Mail on your own domain

Set up properly once — MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC written down and handed over — then run for a flat monthly seat price.

Email setup
Per domain: MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured, mailboxes created, handover document written
$200 one-time
Migration from your existing provider
$45 per mailbox
Managed seat — Dexatron Mail
The default. 5 GB mailbox, no Microsoft license inside the price. Read the limits alongside before choosing it.
$9/user/mo
Bring your own license
You buy from Microsoft or Google direct; we set it up and run it. Setup and migration only.
$200 one-time
Under about five people, buying your own licenses direct is usually the better deal, and that is what we will tell you.
What Dexatron Mail is not
No Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive or desktop Office. Mail, calendar and contacts. That is the product.
5 GB mailboxes. That is not Exchange parity, which is 50 GB. Larger quotas are quoted individually.
No 24/7 coverage, and no enterprise SLA or service credits. Best-effort support from a small team.
No BAA and no HIPAA posture of any kind. Anyone handling protected health information goes to Microsoft or Google, and we will say so before you sign rather than after.
No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestation. If your customers send procurement questionnaires, you are a Microsoft client.
Free, and staying free
DV SSL certificate
$0 — always
Role addresses
info@, sales@, billing@ — $0, always
Setup fee on hosting
$0, on every tier
Domain registration
$0 from us. You register it yourself, in your own name — about $11.08 a year at Porkbun.
Out-of-scope work
$125/hr, published here rather than discovered on an invoice
Put together

Three bundles, with the year-two number attached

Year one and year two are both printed, because year two is the number that decides what this actually costs you and it is the one most quotes leave out.

Starter

$3,425
year one
Year 2 on
$275/yr
Five years
$4,525
Six-page website build
Tier 1 hosting
Email setup, bring your own license
No managed seats — under about five people, buying direct is the better deal and we would rather say so
Enquire

Standard

Most chosen
$6,088
year one
Year 2 on
$1,303/yr
Five years
$11,300
Six-page website build
CMS foundation and the FAQ content type
Tier 2 hosting — 0.5 hr a month included
Email setup, 3 migrations and 3 managed seats
Enquire

Premium

$9,634
year one
Year 2 on
$2,509/yr
Five years
$19,670
Six-page build plus five additional static pages
Content Engine — Blog, News and FAQ
Tier 3 hosting — 1.5 hrs a month, staging, quarterly SEO pass
Email setup, 5 migrations and 5 managed seats
Enquire
Renewal

No promotional rate exists. The published price is the renewal price.

Year one is year five. There is no introductory rate here, which means there is nothing to renew away from and no cliff waiting in month thirteen.

The practice this replaces is worth naming plainly: shared hosting across the industry renews at three to six times its introductory price. $2.99 to $17.99. $3.99 to $16.99. $7.99 to $44.99. All currently published, all perfectly legal, and all the reason this paragraph exists.

Recurring prices are locked for 24 months from signature.
After that, at most one increase per 12 months, capped at CPI or 4%, whichever is lower, with 60 days' written notice.
Annual prepay is twelve months for eleven on every hosting tier. Not a promotion — a standing term that is still there in year five.
Cancellation is 30 days' notice, with no early-termination fee.
A $9 Dexatron Mail seat has no license inside it, so it sits fully inside the 4% cap.
The number that matters

What it costs in year five

A monthly price is easy to say and hard to total. Here is the same purchase written as a five-year figure, beside three monthly leases currently sold in this region — priced exactly as they publish them, with the names left out.

Dexatron Standard
$6,088 to build and launch, then $1,303 a year
Year 1$6,088
Year 2+$1,303/yr
Five-year total$11,300
Who owns it?You do. In writing.
A typical local monthly lease
$249/mo for 18 months, then $199/mo indefinitely
Year 1—
Year 2+—
Five-year total$12,840
Who owns it?Not published
A typical local monthly lease
$250/mo plus a $498 setup fee
Year 1—
Year 2+—
Five-year total$15,498
Who owns it?Not published
A typical local monthly lease
$499/mo on a 12-month agreement
Year 1—
Year 2+—
Five-year total$29,940
Who owns it?Not published
Dexatron Standard's five-year total covers the website, five years of Tier 2 hosting and care, and three working mailboxes — and you own the result from the first payment onward. The three lease rows are real offers, priced as published. Not one of them publishes an answer to the ownership question.
How it's different

The system comes before the pages

A mockup is one opinion about one screen. A design system is the set of decisions every screen inherits — and it is far cheaper to argue about while it is still a preview page with nothing built on top of it. It is also how a fixed price stays fixed.

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A system, not a mockup

Color, type, spacing, radius and a component library, delivered as preview pages you can open and poke at. You approve the system before a single page of your site is built on top of it — which is while changing it is still cheap.

TokensComponentsPreview pages
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Real pages, not comps

Every screen is a working page in a browser with your actual copy in it, not a flat image annotated with intentions. What you review is what ships, so there's no gap between the design and the build to argue about in week eight.

Live pagesReal copy
03

Changes land in minutes

Iteration is fast enough that review stops being a week-long round and starts being a conversation. You say the headline is too long; it's shorter before the call ends and you're looking at it.

Same-session edits
04

One file, no server

The build runs as a standalone file with nothing to install and nothing to start. Open it offline, forward it to someone who doesn't have a login, keep the copy from three weeks ago to compare against.

StandaloneOffline review
05

Light and dark from one source

Both themes derive from the same token set rather than being maintained by hand, so they can't drift apart the way two hand-written stylesheets always eventually do.

Theming
06

A fixed price that stays fixed

Naming every page and every content type before the work starts is what makes $2,950 a price rather than an opening position. Anything added later has a published number against it, agreed in writing, before the work happens.

Fixed scopePublished change rate
Proof

This site is the worked example

dexatron.ai was built the way described above. Its design system exists as three preview cards — written before the pages were — and they are what keeps the site from drifting as it grows. Yours will not look like ours; the method is what carries over, not the palette.

Foundations

Ten core colors with measured contrast ratios rather than assumed ones, the full type scale, the radius and spacing steps, and the two standing rules everything else obeys.

Components

Every recurring pattern on the site — buttons, pills, numbered cards, the process timeline, the FAQ accordion — with the rule that governs each one.

Surfaces

The page rhythm: dark hero, light content, one tinted band, dark footer. Which surfaces are allowed to follow which, so no page invents its own structure.

How a build runs

System first, pages second

The sequence matters more than the tooling. Approving a type scale in week one is a ten-minute conversation. Discovering in week six that every heading is a size too big is a rebuild.

Review happens against working pages the whole way through, which is why a change you ask for is usually in front of you before the call ends.

WEEK 0
Scope and inventory
Every page the site needs and every content type it has to carry, written down and priced from the list above. Fixed price, no open-ended discovery invoice.
WEEK 1
Tokens and type
Color, type scale, spacing, radius — delivered as a preview page with contrast measured, not as a moodboard. You approve it here or we change it here.
WEEK 2
The component library
Buttons, cards, navigation, forms — every piece the site will be assembled from, on a page of their own. This is the real sign-off, before anything is assembled.
WEEK 3
Pages, in the browser
Real pages carrying your real copy. Reviews happen live against working screens; most edits land while you're still on the call.
LAUNCH
Domain, hosting, mail
Your domain stays registered in your own name, at your own registrar, on your card. Hosting is a tier from the table above, or your own infrastructure if you would rather. Mail is set up with SPF, DKIM and DMARC written down and handed over.
EXIT
Hand over the keys
Repository, tokens, components, database and the written system, within 10 business days of asking, at no charge. Same rule as every other engagement here — you can fire us cleanly.

When this is the wrong answer

Roughly one in five inquiries gets told they don't need us yet. Web work is where that happens most, because plenty of sites are genuinely better served by a product somebody else already finished building.

Worth the call
Your site is embarrassing you and there's a date it has to stop
You want the total before the meeting, not after it
One person on your side can approve design without convening a committee
You'd rather own the site outright than lease it back from someone monthly, forever
Buy something else
You need a full editorial operation — scheduled drafts, several authors, approval chains. The content types here are for a small team publishing its own posts, not for a newsroom.
You're selling thousands of SKUs with inventory sync — buy the e-commerce platform; we would only be building a worse one slowly
It's one page for a side project and nothing has to be maintained — a site builder at ten dollars a month will genuinely serve you better, and we'll say so on the call

Questions we get asked

No. It is the price of the six pages named above — Home, About, Contact with a working form, Privacy, Terms and 404 — and it does not move unless the scope does. A seventh page is $225, published here, agreed in writing before the work starts. Fixed scope is not a sales phrase; it is the reason the number can be printed at all.

Send us the site that's embarrassing you

Tell us what it has to do and who it has to convince. You'll get a page inventory and a fixed price back, built from the line items above — or a straight recommendation to buy something off the shelf, if that turns out to be the honest answer.

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