Why did you make a hosting company?

[James]

Started several years back when I was in teens. Eversince the idea got into my head, I cannot stop thinking about hosting.

 

[TDDHost]

A hobby, and still is! Although i have gotten some death threats already :tired2: Not my fault i get stitched by a dodgy company :cry2:

 

[Erizo]

to help people, as a hobby, to host me my own sites ^^ and to win some extra cash

 

[iiPanel]

Started iiPanel back in April 2005 just to have an additional line of business. During Jan. 2006 decided to grow it to get advanced experience in the hosting industry as well as earn additional income. Hosting industry is competitive but is now in our blood.

 

[monaghan]

I was fed up of the lack of service I was getting as a customer, and though, "Hey... I'm a Unix Sysadmin and familiar with Linux, I might as well do it myself, then I know it's done properly". I bunged a bit of cash at it to rent a dedicated box and sold a few accounts.

It was a natural extension to the web & database consultancy we already did.

Never looked back

 

[Sitebee]

Why did you make a hosting company in the first place?
As a hobby - For Fun, or to to get $$$?

Both! Plus to learn more about the web.

And to pay for the servers

 

[Matsta]

Money Money Money, MONEY!!!!
I like that song
No i cant make any money out of it so just really a hobby.

 

[[ABG] Ben]

It's really a hobby for me.

 

[iiPanel]

Why do I hear that many hosts do not make money out of their hosting business?
Why do you think this is happening to many?

Maybe it is lack of planning?

 

[fireshark]

How do you make money giving away stuff that you pay for?

 

[Fried]

As you can see this is a free hosting forum... So most people here do it as a hobby - They don't get profit out of it.

 

[iiPanel]

To be more specific I was talking about paid hosting providers, I hear plenty closing down for not having enough profits which actually make me question why this happens to them.

 

[TaiLZ]

To help people as they help me.

Hosting for life.

 

[AvailNetworks]

because people think it is easy money. buy a $4/mo reseller account and chanrge people $10/mo for 10gb space 800gb bandwidth and become rich in 2 weeks

 

[Fried]

To be more specific I was talking about paid hosting providers, I hear plenty closing down for not having enough profits which actually make me question why this happens to them.

Alot of them close down because they think they will get about 5 customers in a week.

 

[iiPanel]

lol this is true :lol:
they may end up getting 5 customers but with each one paying $1 or $2 per month, and then no to forget the killer paypal transaction fees.
This is a tough business I think.

 

[fireshark]

?

Paypal transaction fees go about 6-7% depending on sender, receiver, and amount...

 

[utcrazy]

I see a lot of people here mentioning they made no money on hosting, through my ventures, I have made quite a good amount through hosting.

 

[AvailNetworks]

?

Paypal transaction fees go about 6-7% depending on sender, receiver, and amount...

which paypal are you using? we pay 2.25% just like every other merchant

 

[fireshark]

I know some people that pay 0% due to merchant, but my PayPal is just a normal Premier account, I like it that way