Welcome to the 1st article in the PremiusHosting article series, this article
will provide you with general information about starting your own web hosting
business, recommendations and advice.
Well, how do you start your own web
hosting business, allot of people have the misleading impression that starting a
web hosting business is an easy process, or that starting is web hosting
business would bring you some easy money, they fail to know that when starting a
web hosting business, offering your services to the public is a commitment, I
will go though a numbered process that should help you better understand the
process of offering your clients some Affordable windows web hosting
plans. After that I will go through some important notes on how to choose a web
host that you can trust with your business.
Before I go ahead and start with the points, i would like to give you some
advise, its always better before starting with the below points to have a
general idea about your marketing strategy, which would be allot easier to
determine if you decide what is your target market, my advise would be is to
start with your local area 1st, your family, neighbors, friends, in that matter
please check out point #6 for more details.
1- To start a web hosting business its always better to have a website,
especially if you are targeting the world wide web users. You can always gain
some money through affiliate programs that provide you with a link to advertise,
but that really isn't a web hosting business. Now you have two options regarding
your web site design, if you are on a low budget, you can always go with a pre
designed template, and personally I see nothing wrong in that, especially if you
are only going to offer web hosting services which means web design isn't your
real arena. the 2nd choice would be to go with a custom made design, in this
matter PremiusHosting can offer you an excellent deal
if you sign up with one of our Cheap linux web hosting plans or affordable
windows web hosting plans,
alternatively you can always look for a free lancer to do the job, which would
usually be c a cheaper option.
2- After having your website designed and ready to go, you need to register a
domain name, my advice is to register your domain with another company other
than the one you get your reseller account with, the reason is that in some
cases you face trouble with your host, they wouldn't be in control of your
domain, of course this is usually a point of worry if you are dealing with a kidi
host or with an unprofessional web hosting company.
3- Now comes the point where you need to choose a host, 1st of all you need
to determine what would you like to start with, a reseller account, VPS, or a
dedicated server, it all really depends on your budget, but my advise would be
to start with a reseller or a VPS account, even if you do have the financial
ability to get a dedicated server right away, I would advise you to invest that
money in your marketing or your support.
4- After choosing your host (you should always contact them before signing up
with a plan, ask them whatever is on your mind, try their live support if they
have one, don't be shy to reply with even more questions, if they are committed
to their business they shouldn't be angry or anything) you need to determine
your market, is it offering Cheap linux web hosting, or offering reseller
plans (in this case you would need either a VPS or a
dedicated server)
5- You also might want to determine the platform that you would like to offer
web hosting on , for example our Affordable windows web hosting plans are
surly running on a windows server (windows sever 2003) so if your clients would
be hosting asp or ASP. net pages you would need a windows reseller or a windows
dedicated server.
6- Now its time for you to determine your marketing strategy, as said in the
introduction, you need to determine your targeted market, my suggestion would be
to go local 1st, its easier and costs less, print business cards and leave them
everywhere you go, go to local businesses and offer them your services, leave
ads at local shops, contact web designers in your area and offer them some
excellent offers, and you can always run an AD on a local news paper. The 2nd
choice would be to go global, this choice usually needs a bigger budget, but
that's not always the case you can buy banner ads on popular sites, try out PPC
(pay per click ) services that are offered at Google or overtrue, or you can
search engine optimize your site to bring in more targeted
traffic from the search engines, any of these choices needs allot of researching
and is beyond the scope of this article.
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