Which Hosting You Need: Basic, Business or Commerce
Should I take Basic, Business or Commerce hosting?
For the site on your own address with form orders in the inbox, lifetime domain hosting, a one-time 6,999 BDT, with 25 submissions a day and email alerts. For 100 submissions a day, a blog, extra pages and your own code, Business at 14,499 BDT. For a shop sending parcels by courier, Commerce at 23,999 BDT, with 500 submissions a day, SMS to the buyer and a courier file.
Three levels, at a glance
Building a site and running a site are two different things. Building is free for everyone: up to 400,000 Token a day, build as much as you like.
| What you need | The least that covers it | One-time price |
| just sending somebody the link | the free share link | 0 BDT |
| an address in your own name on banglacodes.app, installing on a phone like an app (PWA) and your first Android app (.apk, .aab) | free Publish | 0 BDT |
| your own domain, HTTPS, form orders in the inbox (25 a day) with email for the first 5 | lifetime domain hosting | 6,999 BDT |
| 100 orders a day, more pages and posts, your own code | Business | 14,499 BDT |
| 500 orders a day, SMS to the buyer, a courier file | Commerce | 23,999 BDT |
- Each level carries everything from the one below it.
- Every one of them is a one-time price, per site. Nothing yearly for the hosting, no renewal bill (the domain's yearly fee is separate).
- Moving up from Business to Commerce later charges only the difference.
The free share link
Once you build an app you get a share link, and that is free for everyone.
- Send the link over WhatsApp or Facebook and anyone can open the site on their phone.
- For showing a client, asking a friend's opinion, or showing off your own work, this is already enough.
- Publish and you also get a permanent address of your own under banglacodes.app.
- Publishing is free: three sites live at once, at apnar-site.banglacodes.app, each with a small badge. For more sites or no badge, any Token pack, the smallest being 199 BDT.
What you do not get here: an address in your own name, and any way for a form's contents to reach you. A visitor can fill the form and nothing happens, because the place that would store it has not been bought.
Lifetime domain hosting
This is the level where the site becomes a real business site. On the pricing page this card is called Basic. A one-time ৳6,999 (2,449,650 Token if you pay from your balance), and then nothing ever again.
- The site on your own domain.
- The HTTPS padlock arriving by itself.
- Form orders and messages land in the site inbox with email alerts, 25 submissions and 5 emails a day.
- 15 pages instead of 5.
What this does not cost money: installing on a phone's home screen (PWA), the Android app from a live site (.apk and .aab), working offline, analytics, and the speed of the worldwide edge network. Every published site has those already, the free address included.
If more than 25 orders a day come in, or you need a blog, extra pages and your own code, you need the next level.
Business hosting: more orders, a blog and your own code
A one-time ৳14,499, per site. The ৳6,999 domain hosting is inside this price and is never paid on top.
- 100 submissions a day. Four times the 25 on lifetime hosting, room for a busy season.
- A site inbox. Orders, bookings and messages in one place in the dashboard, sorted with new, seen and done statuses, just as on lifetime hosting.
- 10 email alerts a day. Lifetime hosting gives 5, this doubles it. The rest still land in the inbox perfectly well.
- A blog and extra pages. Write a new page from the dashboard and it is live the moment you save, with no need to open the AI builder. Up to 50 pages.
- Header and footer code. Your own code at the top and bottom of every page, like an announcement banner or a chat widget.
- Backups. Download the whole site and the inbox in one click and keep a copy of your own.
Commerce hosting: orders, SMS and couriers
A one-time ৳23,999, per site. Everything in Business is in it, and on top of that:
- 500 submissions a day. Enough headroom for the order flow of a busy shop.
- Up to 200 pages. Plenty of room across products, categories and a blog.
- 30 email alerts a day. Three times the 10 you get on Business.
- An automatic reply to the buyer. When the form carries an email address, your own thank-you message goes to the customer.
- SMS to the buyer. A short text telling them the order arrived, sent from your own SMS gateway account.
- A courier order file. Download the orders as one file and upload it straight into the courier's panel.
Which one is for whom
| Who you are | What you actually need | What to take |
| building a portfolio to show your work | a good-looking address in your own name | lifetime domain hosting |
| a tuition teacher taking admission applications | applications collected in one place, with email alerts | lifetime domain hosting |
| running a shop with more than 25 orders a day | 100 orders a day, extra product pages | Business |
| an office taking complaints or applications | an inbox, statuses, backups and your own code | Business |
| an online shop with parcels going out by courier daily | SMS to the buyer and a courier file | Commerce |
If you are torn, the rule is easy. Answer one question only: will more than 25 submissions a day come in, or do you need a blog and your own code?
- If not, lifetime hosting is enough, and forms and the inbox are already in it.
- If yes, Business.
- And if parcels go out by courier, Commerce.
Why this is cheaper than paying rent every year
Ordinary hosting is rent: pay every year or the site goes dark.
| What you count up | Ordinary hosting | Here |
| a year | ৳3,000 to ৳6,000, with SSL or backups often extra | nothing |
| over 5 years | 15,000 to 30,000 BDT | the one-time ৳6,999 |
| over 10 years | 30,000 to 60,000 BDT | the one-time ৳6,999 |
We went the other way, and there is nothing to hide about why:
- A static site costs us very little to run.
- No server has to stay switched on for it, and no database has to run.
- Nobody has to be paid to mind cPanel and updates.
- There is no reason to charge every year for a cost that is not there.
The worst part of renting is not the price, it is forgetting. One missed renewal date and years of a site go dark overnight. A one-time price takes that fear away entirely.
What static hosting cannot do
Sites here are static: HTML, CSS and JavaScript that runs in the browser. Anything that runs in the visitor's browser works; no separate program runs on the server. So none of this works on any plan:
- PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce or anything that depends on PHP.
- Node, Python or any backend that runs on a server, and any database.
- Visitor login or account systems, or showing one visitor what another visitor typed.
- Taking a card payment inside the page. You can place your own gateway's payment link, and the money goes straight to your gateway.
So how do you run a shop? Everything most Bangladeshi shops need is here:
- Product pages, a cart and checkout.
- Cash on delivery and an order inbox.
- SMS to the buyer and a courier file.
- Server-side code, meaning PHP, WordPress or a database, does not run here, and a small shop does not need it.
An honest limit is far better than a promise that breaks. So read this before you buy, not after your first attempt.
How to buy
- Open the price page, look at the three levels side by side, and decide which one you actually need.
- Pay by bKash, Nagad or card, or from your balance if it holds enough Token; there is no need to buy Token first.
- Take the lifetime domain hosting with "Get the hosting" in the builder's domain section; if you have not, the fee is due the moment the domain verifies.
- Take Business or Commerce on the site's manage page (the "Manage site" chip above the builder's message box), with "Activate" on the plan's card.
- After that no bill ever arrives.
- Moving from Business to Commerce later charges only the gap between ৳14,499 and ৳23,999, never the whole price again.
- If you change your mind, write to support@banglacodes.com within 13 days of buying: support looks at each request on its own and decides. After that, hosting is not refunded.
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