Re:Ask HN: Starting my own hosting company, any advice?
by ahemphill on Monday June 21, 2010 @09:04AM
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It is, indeed, very difficult. I co-founded a niche service that offered hosting and support for about a year -- until we succumbed to scaling problems. Just be VERY sure of your business model and cost of doing business beforehand.
But there's a pitfall here: While you can make money on developing website, it's very hard to make money from value-added hosting. If you charge maybe $25/month, you can afford maybe 15 minutes of support a month, and you still face the risk of the client moving to some crappy host that only charges $5/month (80% savings!!) and they won't know what they're missing (you) until it's too late.
Either way, you're going to end up in the people business, not the hosting business -- and is that what you want?