Start Your Own Web Host: How To Build And Manage Your Own Web Hosting Company Plr Ebook

Table of Contents

Before You Start… 3
The Pre-Business Check List 3
Time is Everything 4
You Need To Know Computers 4
It Takes Money to Make Money 4
Flying Solo is Just Plain Dangerous! 5
A Few Important Things You Will Need: 6
Shared VS. Reselling VS. Dedicated: 7
Re-Sell Hosting 9
“Unbranded” Reseller Hosting 10
Five Great Reseller Companies 11
JustHost.com 11
HostClear.com 13
Green Reseller Web Hosting 14
Host Gator 16
Site Cloud 17
Beware of Overselling! 19
Are You Ready? 19
Remote Hosting & Dedicated Servers 20
What is Remote Hosting? 20
What Makes it “Remote?” 21
The Dedicated Server 21
Choosing a Control Panel Scheme 24
cPanel 24
Plesk 25
DirectAdmin 27
Webmin 27
H-Sphere 27
Exit Plans and Investment Strategies 28
How Do You Determine Selling Price? 28
1. Your total annual website hosting revenue 29
2. Your average ticket price 29
3. Your server system as it relates to your potential buyers systems 29
4. Current growth and attrition rates 30
5. Your Specializations 30
6. Geographical configuration of your server farm 30
7. Your current billing method 31

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Before You Start…

If you’re reading this then congratulations, you’re well on your way to starting a wildly successful Internet business in website hosting! Everybody who’s anybody has a website these days from production artists to babysitters. Competitive web hosting services are among the fastest growing online businesses around the globe!

Before you start your journey into online success you need to make sure that this endeavor is really for you. The beauty of this kind of online business is that it’s pretty easy to set up and when you get tired of it there are “escape” or “exit” plans for cashing in and abandoning ship. One thing that will help you a lot is being computer savvy. The more you know about computing the less research you’ll have to do and the easier it will be to find good deals.

In this book we’ll talk about a few different methods for stating a webhosting business. We’ll start with Resell hosting which is the easiest way to do business but not the most profitable. We’ll then move on to actually using your own servers (rented and owned) so you can have full control over your hosting services. We’ll then dive into building up your hosting business so that it gains equity and value and finally we’ll talk about exit strategies you can use to sell off your online business for much more than you invested into it. Like any investment, it call comes down to what kind of income you make and how successful your hosting website becomes so there are a lot of details to go through.