how much does it cost to developing a website for social networking???

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i have a idea, i have done some research about the marketing but i need to know how much the website will cost me, and have much will cost to per year?? i know that it depends on the traffic but i need to know, the standars cost of a website web 2.0, like hi5.com…
i know that, but i am asking about the desing?? how much will be that? 100k???

i know about the servers and dedicated hosting providers, so i need help for the desing of the website?? how much would that be?
yes i will start it from the ground…

but the most important thing is the people can send emails invitations to all their contacts…

any advise???

There are no standards to the cost of designing a social networking application.

Google offered $30,000,000 to Friendster, but the owner turned them down. I'm sure it doesn't cost that much to develop a social networking website, but you can probably get the picture.

A quick search of Sourceforge.net didn't offer much in the way of moderately mature development of any open source social networking structures, so my guess is that you'll be building mostly from the ground up.

Aside from the cost of development you'll have cost of hosting. Host cost are more standard, and considering the needs of a social networking site similiar to hi5.com, I noticed from a whois of hi5.com that they have their own name servers, you would need to house your own servers or at the very least have dedicated servers hosted by someone else.

Hosting yourself would be less expensive, assuming you live in an area that provides T1 networking at a reasonable rate. If you have one administrator, administering your server (stay away from IIS if you want to save money) you're looking at at least the cost of his/her time as well as the cost of the server (486 w/apache probably won't cut it in this scenario).