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Hosting4You
April 5th, 2009, 22:48
Hello FWS,

I would like to just point out a few points that I have come to see in many of the fellow hosting company's in this industry over the years.

First off If you are wanting to get into this industry I would strongly recommend that you have some capital income. This is not a industry to where you can get "rich" overnight. In the free web hosting industry you have to be strongly dedicated and be able to afford to pay for the servers and all the other fees out of your pocket every month if you have to.

My second point would be that if you are considering to get into this industry please plan out for at least a month what you are wanting to do. Perhaps make a list of what type of plans you are wanting to give out and if you can manage to have a lot of customers on that plan without overselling your services or having to shutdown. Then check the prices on servers and get one that best fits your needs and make sure you have enough money to at least pay for this server for 1 year advance. I would also suggest that you then remember before you get started to right down all the costs like design, control panel, scripting, ads everything!! Get it all planned out and not just decide over night to jump into this industry and hope to get rich. This is where we see a lot of the "Fly By Night Hosting".

To summarize this up I would strongly suggest if you have not been in the free web hosting industry yet to please make sure before you decide to get into it to map out everything and make sure that you have enough time, patience and income to be able to run a quality establishment and not just quit out after a few weeks.

TSO
April 8th, 2009, 12:34
This is fantastic advice for anyone looking to get into the industry! Thanks for sharing. :)