What are the options for an inexpensive web presence?

Suggested topic for BarCampPortland 2008

Discussion leaders: JimTyhurst, CraigFisk

Small non-profits or start-ups typically have very low traffic, but they want a web presence to manage:

• Content regarding the organization
• Content generated by members or customers
• Member or customer relationships
• Events

These requirements usually translate into a web site with some subset of:

• static content
• form submission
• wiki
• blog
• calendar
• event registration
• product catalog
• online sales

In terms of possible implementations, hosting companies provide a range of solutions from $9 to $99+ per month, ranging from a few static HTML pages to a dedicated server where the customer loads their own software.

Is there a low cost middle ground where open source applications can be run in some standard configuration? In particular, is there any way to get by with less than self-hosting or collocating one or more dedicated servers and still meet the requirements?

We hope this discussion will to lead to a matrix with each possible solution as a row and each type of functionality as a column, maybe with a checkmark or numeric score in a cell for functionality satisfied by a solution. For example:

We invite you to share your favorite configuration of open source or proprietary solutions for an inexpensive organizational web site using Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, or any other technology.