Comments on: Warning: The Web Hosting Business is Not For Kids

By: Custom Built PC's

Custom Built PC's — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:27:30 +0000

I've not yet had the inspiration to enter the hosting business. I have a full plate with creating websites for myself and clients and then doing consulting work on the side. It would make sense for me to get into hosting, but it's just hard to find the motivation and more importantly the time! Custom Built PC's's last blog post..Selecting a Computer Power Supply

By: Data Recovery

Data Recovery — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:40:00 +0000

great post.even though it is of months back but still holds true and that was a mistake i made 8 months back that is entering the hosting business though i made none of my clients suffer.

By: Flimjo

Flimjo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:50:51 +0000

I always wondered how the hostin business worked and what kinds of costs were associated with it. It looks like a great passive income business, but it does seem a bit prohibitive to start out. Still, I guess those are the same risks associated with any kind of business. Flimjo's last blog post..By: » Financial Facts About Barack Obama - Part 3: The Social Security Issue

By: George

George — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:50:12 +0000

I agree entirely. I made this stupid mistake, but I was lucky enough to be able to sell up
- DP has MASSIVE scammer problems like this :O

George’s last blog post..And now it’s 200 spam comments..

By: ravi

ravi — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:57:22 +0000

Nice article and I thank everyone here. Well but to all, how can we forget Google and other Search engines. SEO can also help a lot to boost the sales.

By: Steve W

Steve W — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:41:25 +0000

http://www.crunchyhost.com/

“Firefox can’t find the server at http://www.crunchyhost.com.”

lol

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:17:09 +0000

Defiantly true! But I’m 18 and running a webhosting site.

http://windowgate.cancerhost.com

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:56:42 +0000

good info on webhosting.. we are co-locating a server in a datacenter as a VPS solution for our customers but we dont advertise it.. for the most part, it's paying for itself.. but that's not where we make our money. another service that ive been interested in(and would love to see an article like this on) is what about game server & voice server hosting? i would think that market is also saturated.. maybe not as much as web hosting but its up there Luis's last blog post..Dropbox: Google Drive killer coming from MIT Startup

By: CalicoGuy

CalicoGuy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:30:02 +0000

Good article. But the last item (support) isn’t always necessary. I started a successful host (calico hosting) (with a partner, etc!) but instead of focusing on support to control churn, we built a reliable high availability chrooted system. While our competitors spend resources “supporting” problems (and offering unmetered service to bottom feeders,) we keep developing for the future and haven’t lost a client to date. We keep our client to server ratio under 30/1 and charge a little more… Sure, we’re not for everybody (e.g. if you need help with FTP and email etc. and don’t have a geek on staff, we aren’t for you,) but we’re happy with the slower growth. (we call it smarter) Otherwise, great article.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:04:13 +0000

Always remember what happened to Interland!