Hi,
Does anybody know what is the cost range to build the website for a lab? including all,
basically layout is
research | people | publication
Consider using cloud services for a smaller more-static website. If "lab" means, say, US government-funded
lab, depending on the agency they have internal clouds. But AWS or Google cloud could have you a small webserver
for US$50 per month or less, with global connectivity. You can usually pay for network activity incrementally.
You can choose Debian-based VMs if you want but more and more cloud services are true software-as-a-service,
not necessarily discrete VMs that you choose a linux distribution for, size for RAM and virtual disk, etc.
If you choose AWS EC2 linux VMs, they have several distros available pre-built, including their own, which is lean and fast.