Website Design & Hosting · Sacramento Small Business
You’re paying hundreds a year for a website you don’t own.
Wix and Squarespace rent you a page builder. When you stop paying, the site goes away—and the files were never yours to take. I build Sacramento small businesses a custom site they own outright, and host it for $180 a year. That’s about $15 a month, paid once, no monthly billing.
Three rounds of revisions included · Everything remote · Sacramento-based
The whole price list
Hosting
$180 / year
Paid up front, once a year. Works out to about $15 a month. No monthly billing, no surprise rate hikes.
Migration
$100 one-time
Moving you off Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy or WordPress. One flat fee, charged once, never again.
First year, total
$280
Hosting plus migration. Every year after that is just the $180.
Revisions
3 rounds
Included. Anything past that is $50 an hour, quoted before I start.
The part nobody mentions at signup
Renting a website is expensive, and it adds up quietly.
Most small businesses I talk to in Sacramento signed up for a website builder years ago, pay the renewal without looking at it, and have never been able to get their own files out. Here’s what that actually costs.
You don’t own it
Page-builder sites live inside the platform. There’s no clean way to export them, so leaving means starting over. That’s not an accident—it’s the business model.
The bill never goes down
Plans renew automatically and creep up over time. Add a store, a booking tool or a form upgrade and you’re on a higher tier before you notice.
It’s slow, and Google notices
Builder sites carry a lot of code you never asked for. That slows down phones first—which is where most of your customers are looking you up.
Run the numbers
What you pay now vs. what you’d pay me.
Below are the published rates for the plans most small businesses end up on, checked in October 2026. Your own renewal notice is the real number—send it over and I’ll do this math with your figures.
| Squarespace | Wix | TaraLens Media | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per year | About $348 | About $348 | $180 |
| First year, all in | About $348 | About $348 | $280 including migration |
| How you’re billed | Auto-renewing subscription | Auto-renewing subscription | Once a year, up front |
| Who owns the files | Locked to the platform | Locked to the platform | You do—standard web files, yours to take |
| Who builds it | You, in a drag-and-drop editor | You, in a drag-and-drop editor | Me, custom, from your content |
| Changes & updates | Your evenings | Your evenings | 3 rounds included, then $50/hr |
On a mid-tier plan, moving over saves you roughly $168 a year—and you come out ahead in year one too, even after the $100 migration. Over five years that’s somewhere near $740 back in the business, and at the end of it you still own your site.
How it works
Four steps, and none of them are your problem.
Start to finish this usually takes two to three weeks, depending on how fast content comes back to me.
Free call
Twenty minutes on Zoom, FaceTime or Google Meet. I look at your current site, tell you what I’d change and what it would cost. No pitch deck.
Migration
I rebuild your pages properly, move your copy and photos over, and keep the things that are already working for you. You keep your domain.
Revisions
You see it on a private link before anything goes live. Three rounds of changes are included—wording, photos, layout, whatever you want moved.
Launch
I point your domain at the new site, check it on desktop and phone, and you’re live. Hosting starts from that day.
What clients say
Real words from real people.
Tara completely saved us. Our old platform wouldn’t even give us the files. She rebuilt it from scratch, made it look way better, and now we’re paying a fraction of what we were.
Jolene — Western Beef
Working with Tara on the Live Music Besties site was seamless. She understood what we needed, built it clean, and makes changes painless.
Tana — Live Music Besties
Recent builds
Sites I’ve designed and built.
Different businesses, same approach: clear, fast, and easy for a customer to act on.
Built here
A Sacramento creative, building for Sacramento businesses.
I’m Tara Lenehan. I run TaraLens Media out of Sacramento—photography and video for live music, brands and families, plus websites for independent businesses around town. My own site, the one you’re reading, is hand-built and hosted exactly the way yours would be.
Working with someone local means you can actually reach me, and I understand who’s searching for you: people on their phones, looking for a restaurant, a salon, a studio or a contractor in Midtown, East Sac, Oak Park, Land Park, Davis, Folsom or Roseville. The site gets built to be found by them.
Questions I get asked
The honest answers.
How much does a small business website cost?
The first year is $280 total—$180 for a year of hosting paid up front, plus the one-time $100 migration fee. After that it’s $180 a year, which is about $15 a month. Three rounds of revisions are included in the build.
Do I actually own my website?
Yes. Your site is built as plain, standard web files rather than inside a page builder, so the code and your content belong to you. If you ever decide to go elsewhere, you leave with the files and your domain.
Can you move my site off Wix or Squarespace?
That’s the most common job I do. The $100 migration fee covers rebuilding your pages, bringing your copy and photos across, and pointing your existing domain at the new site. You keep your domain and your email.
Do we have to meet in person?
No—everything runs over Zoom, FaceTime or Google Meet, which is a big part of why the price is what it is. That said, I live here. If you’d rather talk it through over coffee somewhere in Sacramento, I’m happy to.
What if I need changes later?
Three rounds of revisions come with the build. After launch, changes are $50 an hour and I’ll always quote the time before starting. Small fixes are usually quick.
What happens to my Google ranking?
Migrations are set up so your existing pages redirect to their new homes, which is what protects the rankings you already have. Faster, cleaner pages generally help rather than hurt—but nobody can promise a specific position in search results, and I won’t.
Do you build online stores?
Simple product and booking setups, yes. A large catalogue with inventory, variants and shipping rules is a bigger project than this offer covers—tell me what you’re selling and I’ll quote it honestly or point you somewhere better suited.
Free website review
Send me your site. I’ll tell you what I’d change.
No charge and no obligation—you’ll get an honest read on what’s working, what’s costing you customers, and exactly what a move would cost. If your current setup is fine, I’ll tell you that too.
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