is it hard to make webhosting?

yap its hard to make webhosting

its not easy money it requires effort but yeah its not much difficult :)

it is a very serious business, which requires significant investment and a human effort.

no it is the easiest part of website development
just need to add hosting but SEO is the difficult part

Nah Paul, SEO is getting recognized by Google and slammed. The basic business of running a business for more than 14 months is what this question is about - the twerps croak at the 4-7 month mark.

Complex jobs, like a webhosting business have never been easy to perform. I know it would be really hard to get the stability for the business from the zero level.

its easy unless you have a good server

Any new business is hard first.

It is very hard to start up. It took me atleast a year to get a growing base and become stable.

all i can recommend, is to work hard at it and keep going...you will LOSE money for the first year or so. (depending on how your marketing)

Hard it is! There are a lot of different things involved. Choosing/writing your application system, deciding the best configuration for your users while balancing security and usability, dealing with all the support tickets that pop up, handling downtime, auditing accounts.... The list goes on and on.

There is a lot of work involved, some that was not accounted for before we started, however it has proven to be a great learning experience and our entire team appreciates the experience and is eager to see what the future holds for Hostalope.

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Originally Posted by kfgoraj

Any new business is hard first.

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I agree with this. Just give your best and work hard for it.

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Originally Posted by Seraphim

It all depends on the size at which you start. Starting out with very little to work with is the hardest. You have to be competitive, but don't have anywhere near the resources to fling about that your competitors do. It's a harsh marketplace, and you will never get rich quick in it.

Ultimately at the smallest possible scale it comes down to a delicate balance of micromanagement and good practices in order to make the little bit you have to start with be enough to stand your ground on. Survival at this level means that you have no choice but to wear all of the hats yourself. You personally oversee every single detail about your hosting business, from the configuration of the servers you are using to supervising your customers so that they don't abuse your services and cause problems.

It is a lot of work to take on, and you'll lose a lot of money your first few years. Don't expect to see any profits at all for at least a year, sometimes even as long as 2-3 years before your investment starts to pay off. Google Adsense doesn't begin payout until you reach $100 in your account with them. So even if you get paying customers right out of the gate, you'll struggle to make ends meet for a long time before you have enough clients and your clients have enough regular traffic just to pay the bills for the servers you are using.

If you survive the beginnings as a one man operation providing good service and fair rates, then your business starts to grow up and you can hand off the parts of the job you don't care for to your new employees. However as long as you sit in the center seat you always will have to be responsible for your business, and will be responsible for making the decisions that affect your success and your profitability.

Now if you have the money to invest, you can skip the beginnings of being a lonely administrator with a couple boxes and a lot of dreams, and jump right into a small operation with several servers and people to help you run things. But for this avenue you automatically become management, and as such have to be certain of your skills in managing such an enterprise or your money will vanish even faster than starting up as a one man show.

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I could not say it any better then that. I think running server and making the site is not hard but getting people to hit that site is what i am having a hard time in.

It is not hard making the web hosting but it is hard getting customers. How do you distinguish yourself from the competition? That is the hard part. Before you get into this business, DO YOUR RESEARCH. This means find out who your target client base is and find out what they want.

I would say, easy to start up, hard to sustain and grow it.
Unless you spend enough time and the marketing work.

Not if you know what your doing. Hosting is simply a computer "server" in a data center. Obviously there is more to it than this. I would suggest using fully managed servers if your not a tech geek and when you get to the point to use a rack or cage in a data center to hire experts to manage it for you.