Starting your own Web Hosting Company
By Web Hosting on May 20, 2007 in Web Hosting
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If you prefer to start your own web hosting company rather than pay for its services to your web host, it could offer you an additional income source as well as save you the hosting costs of your own sites.
There are basically two ways to start a web hosting company. The first way involves leasing business space, buying equipment, setting up servers, leasing T1 or T3 lines to connect to the Internet, finding clients, and hiring staff to provide 24 hour support. This requires a fair amount of technical knowledge and can seem quite complicated to a novice. The second available option is to become a reseller for a reliable web host. Reselling is often anonymous. A certain amount of disk space and bandwidth is allotted to the reseller and you have the freedom to fix your own rates and brands. However, a reseller is entitled to pay a monthly fee. While all the technicalities remain the sole responsibility of the web host company, the functionary needs to sign up customers and just watch the pay checks become heftier.
Firstly, it is important to note that this area is highly competitive as there thousands of web host companies and making yourself noticeable can be a daunting task. Many customers do an in-depth research before choosing their web host. So it is vital that you at least make your website noticeable and advertising is the only way to make that happen. Advertising can however prove to be expensive, especially in a rivalrous market.
It is important to choose a reliable hosting company as you will be dependant on them for most of the technical support. There are many types of reseller packages to choose from. Some companies would want you to launch a web company under their brand name while others may be a bit easy on this and give you the freedom to assign it under your own business name.
Take note of the billing aspects involved in the reseller package. Some packages may require you to set up a billing gateway while others have the entire package ready to get started with.
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