Cheat sheet: The years after launch
The 33 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.
1. Built and paid for is not free
- Running costscoûts récurrents
- the money a site costs every month or year after launch, such as hosting, subscriptions and maintenance.
- Hostinghébergement
- the service that stores a site's files and sends them to visitors.
- Domain namenom de domaine
- the readable name of a website, such as
leboncoin.fr, which its owner rents by the year. - Subscriptionabonnement
- a fixed price paid every month or every year to use a service.
- Maintenancemaintenance
- the regular work that keeps a site working after launch, such as updates, fixes and renewals.
- Security updatemise à jour de sécurité
- a new version of a piece of software that fixes a weakness attackers could use.
- Pluginplugin, extension
- an add-on, often made by another company, that gives a tool such as WordPress a new feature.
2. Next year's budget
- Rangefourchette
- a low and a high figure, such as €3,000 to €6,000, given instead of one exact number.
- Transaction feefrais de transaction
- the share of each card payment that a payment service keeps, often 1.5 to 3% of the amount.
- WordPressWordPress
- a popular tool that builds pages on a server, keeps the content in a database and gives an admin screen to edit it.
- ShopifyShopify
- an online service that rents you a ready-made shop, with payments, stock and delivery, for a monthly fee.
- Maintenancemaintenance
- the regular work that keeps a site working after launch, such as updates, fixes and renewals.
3. What the budget often forgets
- Redesignrefonte
- rebuilding a site's look, and often its code, usually every few years.
- Maintenance contractcontrat de maintenance
- an agreement where a provider looks after a site for a fixed yearly price and promises how fast it will react.
- Running costscoûts récurrents
- the money a site costs every month or year after launch, such as hosting, subscriptions and maintenance.
- Agencyagence
- a company with a team that designs and builds sites for clients.
4. Cheaper over how long?
- Total cost of ownershipcoût total de possession, TCO
- everything an option costs over several years, from its first price to its running costs and people's time.
- Up-front costcoût initial
- what an option costs before it starts working, such as the build or the setup.
- Running costscoûts récurrents
- the money a site costs every month or year after launch, such as hosting, subscriptions and maintenance.
- Website buildercréateur de sites
- an online service, such as Wix or Squarespace, where you make a site from ready-made blocks, for a monthly fee.
- Per-user priceprix par utilisateur
- a price charged every month for each person who uses a service.
- Volume discountremise sur volume
- a lower price per user, which a provider gives to a customer with many users.
5. Free software and other risks
- Open sourceopen source, logiciel libre
- describes software whose code is public and free to use, which you can run yourself or pay someone to run.
- Self-hostingauto-hébergement
- running software on your own server, so that you install it, update it and back it up yourself.
- Backupsauvegarde
- a copy of a site's data kept in a safe place, to recover it after a loss or an error.
- Overrundépassement
- when a project costs more or takes longer than its estimate.
- Contingencyprovision pour imprévus
- an extra amount added to a budget or an estimate, to pay for the problems nobody can predict.
- Rangefourchette
- a low and a high figure, such as €3,000 to €6,000, given instead of one exact number.
6. What to ask
- Running costscoûts récurrents
- the money a site costs every month or year after launch, such as hosting, subscriptions and maintenance.
- Renewalrenouvellement
- paying again for a service before it ends, such as a domain name each year, so that it keeps working.
- Security updatemise à jour de sécurité
- a new version of a piece of software that fixes a weakness attackers could use.
- Maintenance contractcontrat de maintenance
- an agreement where a provider looks after a site for a fixed yearly price and promises how fast it will react.
- Total cost of ownershipcoût total de possession, TCO
- everything an option costs over several years, from its first price to its running costs and people's time.
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