How to grow my hosting company?

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by bambam24 • 6 years ago

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I wonder which platform/sources I can use to find leads for my software hosting company? FYI, It’s profitable business last 10 years, I usually sold to my friends and their friends etc. I build websites and eCommerce solutions for them. And yes I’m only 24 years old drop out of collage.

rxsel• 6 years ago

Hosting and the tech behind it, networks, etc. Is something I’m interested learning more about. Recommend any resources? Also, do people still care about college? This is a college dropout asking.

p0d• 6 years ago

"drop out of collage"...that line itself could make money.

stevekemp• 6 years ago

It's a saturated market, and has been for a long time.

On the low-end you've got cpanel resellers, on the middle-ground you have people who buy hardware and stick it in racks in other peoples' data-centers. On the high-end companies build, assemble, and host their own kit.

Really it comes down to identifying your ideal user and marketing, advertising, and cutting costs.

Small hosting companies usually promise "personal support", but of course the reality is that support is timeconsuming if you're doing it alone, and expensive if you have to hire decent sysadmins.

Actual specifics will depend on where/what you're doing. Do you have your own hardware? Your own links? Your own AS, etc? Or are you reselling something from somebody else?

How to grow my hosting company?

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