Cheap Website Development in Costa del Sol — What You Actually Get for €290

Let's cut to it. You're searching for cheap website development on the Costa del Sol. Maybe you just opened a restaurant in Estepona. Maybe you're a personal trainer in Marbella. Maybe you run a small legal consultancy in Fuengirola and you know you need something online, but you don't want to spend five thousand euros to find out.

Fair enough. But "cheap" means wildly different things in this market, and most of them are bad.

Here's what you're actually choosing between — and what we built our €290 Quicklaunch tier to solve.

The Current State of Cheap Web Development on the Costa del Sol

Search "affordable web design Marbella" or "cheap web developer Spain" and you'll find three types of results:

The WordPress Freelancer (€200-€400)

Some guy on the coast — maybe a digital nomad, maybe semi-retired — who installs a WordPress theme, swaps in your logo, and calls it done. The site loads in 6-8 seconds, uses 14 plugins that haven't been updated since 2022, and breaks the first time WordPress pushes a core update. You'll spend another €200 six months later fixing it, and another €200 after that. The "cheap" option ends up costing more than a proper site, just spread out over frustrating increments.

Wix / Squarespace DIY (€12-€40/month)

You build it yourself using drag-and-drop. It looks fine until you realize your site loads slowly, your SEO is limited by what the platform allows, and you're paying €200-€480 per year forever for something you don't own. After three years, you've spent €600-€1,440 on a website you can't move, can't customize beyond the template, and that looks like every other Wix site on the internet. Plus, you spent 40 hours building it instead of running your business.

The Local Agency (€3,000-€8,000+)

Professional result, professional price. This makes sense if you need custom design, multilingual support, CMS, booking systems, or complex functionality. But if you're a small business that needs five solid pages and a contact form, you're overpaying by an order of magnitude.

There's a gap in this market. A real website — fast, well-built, properly deployed — for businesses that don't need the full agency treatment but deserve better than a bloated WordPress install. That's the gap we built Quicklaunch to fill.

The €290 Website: What You Actually Get

Our Quicklaunch tier costs €290, one-time. No monthly fees for the build. Here's what's included:

Next.js framework. Not WordPress. Not a page builder. A production-grade React framework that generates static pages, serves them from a CDN, and loads in under 2 seconds. This is the same technology used by companies like Netflix, Nike, and Notion — scaled down to a three-page business site.

Up to 3 pages. Typically: Home, Services, and Contact. Enough to establish a legitimate online presence, present your services clearly, and capture leads.

SSL certificate. Your site runs on HTTPS. This isn't optional in 2025 — browsers flag non-SSL sites as insecure, and Google penalizes them in rankings.

Basic SEO setup. Meta titles, descriptions, Open Graph tags, proper heading structure, semantic HTML, sitemap generation, and correct robots.txt configuration. This isn't an SEO strategy — it's the technical foundation that makes an SEO strategy possible.

Mobile responsive. The site works properly on phones, tablets, and desktops. Not "sort of works" — actually works. Buttons are tappable, text is readable, images are properly sized.

One round of revisions. After the initial build, you get one revision round to adjust content, tweak layouts, or change colors. This keeps the project scope tight and the price honest.

Deployment on Vercel. Your site is deployed on Vercel's global CDN. Fast everywhere, automatic HTTPS, zero-downtime deployments. The free tier covers most small business traffic comfortably.

That's it. Clean, fast, functional, deployed. No subscriptions to the build itself, no plugin dependencies, no vendor lock-in.

What's NOT Included — Let's Be Honest

Transparency matters more than upselling. Here's what €290 does not buy you:

• Custom design. You get a clean, professional layout based on a proven structure. Not a bespoke design with custom illustrations and animations. It will look good, but it won't win design awards.
• Content Management System (CMS). You can't log into a dashboard and edit text yourself. Content changes require a developer. For a three-page site that changes rarely, this is a non-issue. For a site that needs weekly updates, it's a problem.
• Blog. No blog infrastructure. If content marketing is part of your strategy, you need a higher tier.
• Multilingual support. The site is in one language. Marbella businesses often need English and Spanish at minimum. Multilingual adds routing, content duplication, and language switching — it's real engineering work and it's priced accordingly.
• Animations and interactions. No parallax scrolling, no animated counters, no fancy page transitions. Clean and fast, not flashy.
• Ongoing maintenance. The build is one-time. If you need content updates, bug fixes, or feature additions after launch, those are billed separately or covered under a maintenance plan.
• E-commerce. No shopping cart, no payment processing, no product catalog.

If you need any of these things, that's fine — they exist in our higher tiers. But at €290, we're not going to pretend they're included and then surprise you with "add-on" invoices.

Why Next.js Matters — Even at €290

You might think: "I don't care what technology my website uses, I just need it to work."

Fair. But the technology choice directly affects whether it works well:

Performance. A Next.js static site loads in 1-2 seconds. A typical WordPress site on shared hosting loads in 4-8 seconds. Google's own research shows 53% of mobile visitors leave a site that takes longer than 3 seconds to load. Half your potential clients, gone before they see your homepage.

SEO. Google uses Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. Next.js sites consistently score 90-100 on Lighthouse performance audits. WordPress sites with plugins and shared hosting typically score 30-60. This directly affects where you appear in search results for terms like "cheap website development Costa del Sol" or whatever your business targets.

No plugin hell. WordPress sites break because plugins conflict, stop being maintained, or introduce security vulnerabilities. A Next.js static site has no plugins. There's no database to hack, no admin panel to brute-force, no PHP vulnerabilities to exploit. It's HTML, CSS, and JavaScript served from a CDN. The attack surface is essentially zero.

No ongoing WordPress tax. WordPress needs updates — core, themes, plugins — or it becomes a security liability. That means either you learn to manage it (you won't) or you pay someone monthly to do it. Next.js static sites just sit there, working, with no maintenance overhead.

You don't need to understand the technical details. You just need to know: the site will be fast, it will rank well, and it won't break.

The Upgrade Path

Quicklaunch is designed as an entry point, not a dead end. When your business grows and you need more, here's where it goes:

Business Pro (€890) builds on the Quicklaunch foundation and adds what growing businesses actually need: custom design tailored to your brand, CMS so you can manage content yourself, multilingual support for the Costa del Sol's international market, blog infrastructure, advanced SEO, analytics integration, and more pages.

The upgrade isn't a rebuild — it's an extension. Your Quicklaunch site's codebase, domain, and deployment pipeline carry forward. You're not starting from scratch; you're adding capability to a solid foundation.

This is the opposite of what happens with WordPress or Wix. Those platforms don't upgrade gracefully. When you outgrow a WordPress template, you rebuild. When Wix's limitations become unbearable, you start over somewhere else. Every dollar you spent on the old platform is gone.

Who This Is For

Quicklaunch at €290 is the right choice if:

• You're a small business on the Costa del Sol that needs a professional web presence
• You have a clear idea of your services and just need them presented well online
• Your budget is under €500 and you refuse to compromise on quality for something that loads in 8 seconds
• You understand that a three-page website is a starting point, not the final product
• You'd rather pay once for something solid than €30/month forever for something mediocre

It's the wrong choice if:

• You need e-commerce, booking systems, or user accounts
• You require multilingual support from day one
• You want to manage content yourself without developer help
• You need more than three pages at launch
• Your brand requires a fully custom, designed-from-scratch visual identity

There's no shame in either category. We'd rather tell you upfront than take your money and underdeliver.

The Bottom Line

Cheap website development on the Costa del Sol doesn't have to mean bad website development. It means being honest about scope, using the right technology, and delivering something that actually works — fast load times, clean code, proper SEO foundations, and a path to grow.

€290 won't get you everything. But it will get you a real website built on production-grade technology, deployed on a global CDN, loading in under 2 seconds, and ready to capture clients who are searching for your business right now.

That's more than most businesses on the coast have. And it's infinitely better than a WordPress template held together with duct tape and expired plugins.

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Ready to see the full breakdown? Check our pricing page for detailed specs on Quicklaunch and every other tier — or get in touch if you want to talk through what your business actually needs.

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QPC^8 is a software development company based in Marbella, Spain. We build websites, apps, and automation systems for Costa del Sol businesses. Learn more about our web development services.