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CH FMFargo & the Red River Valleythe homecoming channel

Fargo trained me. Now it gets my price list.

NDSU computer science. Seven years leading software projects in Fargo — GPS apps, AWS builds, .NET and Drupal shipped to real Red River Valley businesses. The métier moved to Minneapolis; the roots didn't.

CH FM.1The differencea number before a meeting

Every professional shop in Fargo makes you book a meeting to hear a number.

We checked. The established Fargo shops are quote-only with five-figure project minimums — fine for what they are, but if you run a small business, a nonprofit, or an aging site that just needs a grown-up looking after it, you deserve a price before a pitch. Here's ours, same as everyone else sees.

The list, in full

  • Site Health Check — $495 flat, credits toward any plan or diagnostic within 30 days
  • Maintenance — $350 / $650 / from $1,500 per month, tiers published
  • Rescue Assessment — $1,500 flat, credits toward the fix within 30 days
  • Upgrade Assessment — from $2,500, Drupal 7–10 to 11
  • Performance Audit — $3,500 flat, any stack
  • Builds — scoped in writing with a number and a date
CH FM.2Straight answersthe Fargo questions

Do you work on-site in Fargo?

The work is remote from Minneapolis — which is how it stays affordable — with on-site kickoffs and working sessions when I'm back in the valley, which is regularly. Family's there; the drive's four hours; I know exactly how I-94 feels in January.

Why hire a Minneapolis studio over a Fargo shop?

Don't, if a Fargo shop fits — several are good, and I came up in one. Hire this one when you want senior-only work with a published price, a maintenance program measured in engineering instead of minutes, or a platform (Drupal, Magento-era commerce, legacy .NET) the local generalists would rather not touch.

What does website maintenance cost in Fargo?

From local providers: hosting-bundled plans around $99–$399/month with hourly edits on top, or agency retainers in the $1,900–$6,400/month range — almost nobody itemizes. From Dead North: $350 to $1,500+ monthly with the inclusion table public — patch windows, tested backups, real hours.

NDSU? Which years?

Computer science — finished the degree in 2024, eleven years into the career, which is its own kind of Fargo story: start working, keep your word, finish what you start. Bison ties run deep enough that this page was inevitable.

CH FM.3Say hiuff da counts as a greeting

Bring the project home

The URL, what it does now, what it should do instead — rough is fine. First thing back is honest advice, even when the honest advice is a Fargo shop down the street.