Guides, comparisons and honest numbers for station owners — what a radio website really costs, how to own it instead of renting it, and how to get the most out of your AzuraCast stream.
The broadcast is the cheap part — a Streamerr stream starts at £3.99/mo. What turns it into a station you own is the website in front of it. Here is how a cheap stream host and a Fortesonic site fit together, what each costs, and why almost nobody sells the pairing.
We lined up the popular radio themes and hosted builders against a one-time, self-owned Fortesonic license. The table is not kind to the subscription crowd.
A stream is the easy part. What makes people stay — and come back — is the experience around it: a sleep timer, one-tap song links, TV mode and audio that never cuts out.
No database to breach, no accounts to leak, nothing stored on your server but the code itself. Here is why "boring" architecture is the most reliable thing you can buy.
AzuraCast handles the broadcasting brilliantly. It does not pretend to be your public website. Here is how the two fit together — and what to do if you have no server at all.
Hosted radio builders look cheap per month — until you add up five years of rent. We ran the numbers on SaaS builders, WordPress themes and a one-time Fortesonic license, so you don't have to.
Join the stations that own their web presence. One payment, 12 months of updates, yours forever.