{"id":6733,"date":"2018-07-20T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2022-11-25T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:05:50","slug":"how-to-start-your-own-web-hosting-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/how-to-start-your-own-web-hosting-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Start Your Own Web Hosting Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/how-to-start-your-own-web-hosting-business\/#Have_your_technical_know-how\" >Have your technical know-how<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/how-to-start-your-own-web-hosting-business\/#Know_your_market\" >Know your market<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/how-to-start-your-own-web-hosting-business\/#Decide_your_business_focus\" >Decide your business focus<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/how-to-start-your-own-web-hosting-business\/#Products_and_services_you_offer\" >Products and services you offer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/how-to-start-your-own-web-hosting-business\/#Offer_customer_support\" >Offer customer support<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Web hosting is an ever-evolving, competitive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.da-manager.com\/reseller-hosting\/\">lucrative business<\/a> opportunity for budding entrepreneurs interested in starting their own hosting businesses. However, it takes planning and hard work to make web hosting lucrative.<br \/>\nWeb hosting is the business of providing digital storage space, bandwidth and access to websites for a set amount of time. The financial gain is the difference between the costs of operating your servers, customer service (or reseller costs), and the amount you charge your customers.<br \/>\nAre you interested in starting your own hosting company? are you motivated, have the technical know-how and the ability to handle the workload involved?<br \/>\nDa-Manager web hosting shares their creative guide on how to start a web hosting business and make money online in this article.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the 5 steps they focus on:<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Have_your_technical_know-how\"><\/span><em><strong>Have your technical know-how<\/strong><\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>You need an extensive knowledge of web design to build a nice looking SEO-optimized website to take payments and allow for customer orders, and support, knowledge of HTML, CSS, and PHP will suffice. If you have intentions to operate your own servers, you\u2019ll need sufficient object-oriented programming experience.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Know_your_market\"><\/span><em><strong>Know your market<\/strong><\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Research your market niche, survey your possible competitors from Large to medium to small-sized web hosting companies. What are they offering, are they personalized services?<br \/>\nUnique dedicated services you can offer include a <a href=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name-for-your-business\/\">free domain<\/a>, cheap prices, special customer service, affiliate marketing such as plugins, themes, this can be coupled with extensive marketing in a particular niche.<br \/>\nOther additional research includes researching competitors in your niche, their marketing strategies, services offered and fees.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Decide_your_business_focus\"><\/span><em><strong>Decide your business focus<\/strong><\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Choose which web hosting service you want to offer, there are several hosting services you can consider:<br \/>\n<b>1. Reseller hosting<\/b><br \/>\nReseller hosting is a web hosting business in which you buy wholesale hosting services from a larger company and \u201cresell\u201d these services to consumers at a higher cost.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6737 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-67-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_.png\" alt=\"How To Start Your Own Web Hosting Business\" width=\"630\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-67-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_.png 630w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-67-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-67-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_-600x255.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>How to set up a reseller hosting business<\/em><br \/>\n1 Choose a reseller service that meets the needs and norms of your niche.<br \/>\n2 Buy a reseller hosting package.<br \/>\n3 Build your website around the API of the reseller company and integrate either the provided billing system or your own billing system; determine what services you can offer and what services you should offer.<br \/>\n4 Promote your business with Google ads and social media.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. At-home server<\/b><br \/>\nThis option is for the more technologically savvy business owners who want the freedom of managing their own server(s).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6738\" src=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-68-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_.png\" alt=\"How To Start Your Own Web Hosting Business\" width=\"628\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-68-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_.png 628w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-68-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-68-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_-600x289.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>How to set up an at-home server<\/em><br \/>\n1 Contact your ISP and negotiate a package where they agree to unblock the ports required for hosting and ask for a static IP address instead of the dynamic one they usually provide<br \/>\n2 Research and purchase a server setup, either blade or a simple PC depending on your needs<br \/>\n3 Set it up in your home, making sure that the server is accessible with a steady wired Internet connection.<br \/>\n4 Research and set up the operating system and required server software<br \/>\n5 Link your server to your already designed website and decide what services you will offer<br \/>\n6 Promote your hosting business with online marketing<\/p>\n<p><b>3. Datacenter colocation<\/b><br \/>\nColocation services are a form of creating your own data center. Renting a data center ensures immediate scalability, near 100-percent uptime, security and professional technical support. It also gives you complete control over the physical server setup, its data and the software installed on the server. You will need an operating system, which is the backbone of your server and there are only two main choices: Windows or Linux. Other needed software are a hosting control panel, automation software, and billing software.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6739\" src=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-69-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_.png\" alt=\"How To Start Your Own Web Hosting Business\" width=\"630\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-69-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_.png 630w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-69-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-69-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_-600x315.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Products_and_services_you_offer\"><\/span><em><strong>Products and services you offer<\/strong><\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Now that you have decided on your hosting method, setting up and operating your new hosting company, it\u2019s time to choose the arrays of services you can offer. The four different service options:<\/p>\n<p>1 Shared hosting<br \/>\nShared hosting is the most basic form of hosting, where the web host, provides and installs all the server and end-user software. All the user has to do is to pay a monthly fee and access their cPanel to upload their website.<br \/>\n2 Cloud hosting<br \/>\nCloud hosting provides hosting on virtual servers which pull their computing resource from extensive underlying networks of physical web servers. It is a reliable, flexible and scalable sense of cloud hosting with security confidence.<br \/>\n3 Virtual private server (VPS)<br \/>\nA virtual private server is a virtual machine with its own OS installation. This allows the user to control every aspect of the hosting, aside from the hardware itself\u2013much more freedom than shared hosting. VPS is created by partitioning a single server into multiple virtual servers.<br \/>\n4 Dedicated server<br \/>\nA dedicated server is an entire server rented to one client, for purposes of web hosting. Users and organizations that use dedicated servers have full control over the servers, including choice of operating system, hardware and software.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6740\" src=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-70-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_.png\" alt=\"How To Start Your Own Web Hosting Business\" width=\"631\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-70-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_.png 631w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-70-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FireShot-Capture-70-How-to-Start-a-Web-Hos_-https___webhostinggeeks.com_guides_hosting-business_-485x400.png 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Offer_customer_support\"><\/span><em><strong>Offer customer support<\/strong><\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Customer service begins the moment the potential customer arrives at your website. Support should be available in the form of a free call or live chat with the click of a button. You should be prepared to spend many hours modifying your website to be user friendly. Your checkout process should be streamlined and secure. Once the customer registers for a hosting package, it\u2019s good to send an email with registration details, payment and setup information, and the setup support email and phone number. This in turn will help you get more business via word-of-mouth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> =========================================================<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"text-align: center;\"> Thanks for reading this post! 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