I am an IT student who looking 4ward to start a WEB HOSTING business, helping me with info about this business

Question

Before or after graduation I want to start such a venture. Help me with information about this business and what is needed to start it?

Answer 1

if you need to ask, them you clearly have no knowledge or expertise and your business will fail.

Find a job working with someone to learn the ropes.

Answer 2

I humbly suggest you reconsider. A good Web hosting company is a capital-intensive venture that requires enterprise-class hardware, reasonably skilled personnel (both technologists and marketers) and multiple secure data centers.

Let's take a look at, say, IPOWER:

http://www.ipower.com/about_us_facts.html

The company owns two data centers (Los Angeles and Phoenix) and has two more on colocation (one with AT&T in the U.S., another with Cable and Wireless in Europe). Those weren't cheap, but they allow the company to take full advantage of the economies of scale.

More importantly, IPOWER's 250 employees service 700,000 accounts. That's 2,800 accounts per employee. Assuming that the average account pays $7/month (IPOWER offers three shared hosting plans at $3.95, $7.95, and $12.95/month, as well as virtual and dedicated servers), that's $19,600 per employee per month...

To summarize, a profitable hosting company is all about large numbers. Unless you expect to land dozens of dedicated accounts and/or thousands of shared accounts within the first few months, I can't see you survive in this business...

Answer 3

You should go with reseller webhosting to start. Here is a good Site that has it:

http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=jbrink

They set you up with your own reseller account, you keep 100% of the profits and manage your own clients, they even have premade web templates you can use to get started.You pick your own hosting name and your clients will never know that their sites are actually hosted with your provider:)

Good Luck!
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