Start Your Own Web Hosting Business

Alright so the first idea that came to mind when Imoney is no problem. Then you need to invest some
asked my self "What is a good business I can startinto advertising your website. There are thousands of
online?" was web hosting. Many find that strange butpeople each hour that search "Web Hosting" on
I am one who always has been around some typeGoogle, 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 hostingand other major websites.
business online. I have spent some time looking into5. Software
this and found a couple of things. Here is a list of theWhat OS will you be running on your servers. What
NEEDED tools that are required to even start thinkingprogram 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 realup call.
domain name. Not a website.Less Expensive Options
2. MoneySome thing that you can look into is renting a server
Do you have it? You would need at least $2000 tofor $99 a month, and try to run your business off
get things started. Domain names only cost aboutthat. Weather you are going to rent a server or buy
$10 a year, but web servers cost from up to $1,000one, you must know what server you are going to
to $30,000.rent/buy. Know the processor, processor speed, is it
3. Educationa rack server or a blade server, cooling options, how
Do you even know what a web server is and how itmuch energy it uses up.
works? How about mySQL? How are you going toI 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. Advertisingrunning a successful Web Hosting Business.
So say you meet all of the above requirements and