The questions Rochester business owners actually ask

Fixed pricing, no hourly surprises. Starter is a $1,950 build with your first 3 months of hosting free, then $69/mo (1–5 pages, all the essentials). Growth is $3,500 with 6 months of hosting free, then $129/mo (6–15 pages with local SEO baked in). Authority is $6,500 with a full 12 months of hosting free, then $269/mo (unlimited pages, full Monroe County SEO matrix, automations included). Hosting covers SSL, deploys, basic analytics, and monthly technical upkeep. Full breakdown on /cost.

Starter sites ship in 1–2 weeks. Growth sites take 2–4 weeks. Authority builds with the full local-SEO matrix run 4–6 weeks. I work one project at a time, so your timeline is your timeline — no waiting in a queue behind other clients.

No. Every site is hand-coded in Next.js and React, deployed to Vercel. That is why ROC Web Tech sites consistently score 95+ on Lighthouse Performance while a typical WordPress site scores 40–60. No themes, no plugins, no monthly updates that break your layout. The tradeoff: I do not build sites you can edit yourself in a visual builder. If you need content edits later, I either wire up a small CMS at build time or handle changes for you on the hosting retainer.

Local SEO is built in from day one — every Growth and Authority site ships with LocalBusiness JSON-LD schema, a Google Business Profile audit, and dedicated location pages for each Monroe County city you serve. Authority sites add the full town-by-town service-area matrix. Every site I have shipped is on /work with its live link, so you can go look at the real thing before you hire me.

Yes, completely. The GitHub repo is transferred to you on request. The domain stays in your registrar (or I help you set one up in yours). If you ever want to move hosting, the entire codebase is portable to any Next.js host — Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, or your own server.

After the free hosting window (3 months on Starter, 6 on Growth, 12 on Authority), hosting is $69/mo on Starter, $129/mo on Growth, $269/mo on Authority — covering SSL, deploys, basic analytics, and monthly technical upkeep (dependency and security patches, broken-link fixes) — not content changes. The separate, optional ROC Web Tech maintenance retainer is $99/month on top of hosting and covers deeper content edits, monthly Lighthouse audits, security patches, and one new feature or page per quarter. No maintenance retainer required — hosting alone keeps a site running fine on its own.

Yes. Any tier can add one or more automations — a contact-form-to-CRM flow plus an email confirmation is the usual first one. Prebuilt workflows from the /automations catalog run $99–299 to set up plus $29–79 a month to keep running, depending on which one: review management, appointment booking and reminders, lead management + CRM sync, bookkeeping + invoicing, email marketing sequences, and more. Fully custom automations — built from scratch around your process rather than configured from the catalog — are quoted separately, usually $500–$2,000 each.

I am Connor Meador, and I am genuinely here — not a front for an offshore team. I moved to Rochester for RIT, left school to start this, and stayed because both the business and my life are here now. Every line of code on every ROC Web Tech site is written by me. There are no account managers, no offshore contractors, and no hand-offs. When you call or text (585) 540-1199, you reach me directly.

Rochester and Monroe County are the core, and I build for Buffalo and Syracuse on the same terms — service-area pages for each city I cover, LocalBusiness schema, and the same local-SEO foundation. The build itself works anywhere: everything runs over email, phone, and screen share, so being local is a bonus rather than a requirement.

Small changes (copy edits, image swaps, new testimonials) are free for your first 90 days after launch — that covers the settling-in period when most real edits come up. After that, edits are either handled on the $99/month maintenance retainer or billed as they come: $25 per small change, and $95/hour for larger work, quoted in writing before it starts. The build itself is always a fixed price.

Sometimes — depends on what is wrong. I offer a free site audit at /audit that takes about 10 minutes and tells you whether the existing site is fixable or whether starting over is cheaper. Often the answer is "this is fine, here are three things to fix," and I will say so. A rebuild makes sense when the site sits on an old theme or builder that would cost more to repair than to replace.