| Alright so the first idea that came to mind when I | | | | money is no problem. Then you need to invest some |
| asked my self "What is a good business I can start | | | | into advertising your website. There are thousands of |
| online?" was web hosting. Many find that strange but | | | | people each hour that search "Web Hosting" on |
| I am one who always has been around some type | | | | Google, Yahoo, Bing and so on. Put some money, if |
| of server and networking platform. | | | | not a lot of money into advertising on search engines |
| OK so back to the idea of starting a web hosting | | | | and other major websites. |
| business online. I have spent some time looking into | | | | 5. Software |
| this and found a couple of things. Here is a list of the | | | | What OS will you be running on your servers. What |
| NEEDED tools that are required to even start thinking | | | | program will you use to control your data base. What |
| of this. | | | | program are you going to use to manage Billing? |
| 1. A Real Website! | | | | That's not even 10% but consider that to be a wake |
| When I say real, I mean a website with a real | | | | up call. |
| domain name. Not a website. | | | | Less Expensive Options |
| 2. Money | | | | Some thing that you can look into is renting a server |
| Do you have it? You would need at least $2000 to | | | | for $99 a month, and try to run your business off |
| get things started. Domain names only cost about | | | | that. Weather you are going to rent a server or buy |
| $10 a year, but web servers cost from up to $1,000 | | | | one, you must know what server you are going to |
| to $30,000. | | | | rent/buy. Know the processor, processor speed, is it |
| 3. Education | | | | a rack server or a blade server, cooling options, how |
| Do you even know what a web server is and how it | | | | much energy it uses up. |
| works? How about mySQL? How are you going to | | | | I really do hope that this has at least put forth some |
| get the sites up and running on your severs? | | | | information that will help you in your journey to |
| 4. Advertising | | | | running a successful Web Hosting Business. |
| So say you meet all of the above requirements and | | | | |