UnXpected
Joined: 19 Aug 2004
Posts: 58
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Need help & Info.
Wat I need ? 
I would like to know. I believe it will help other to understand better too.
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Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:18 am
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Thermit
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Aug 2004
Posts: 272
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Hey, good question.
Well, there are different routes that you can take. For example our member Euler goes the DIY route, with his own hardware hooked into his ISP's OC12. With colocation, you provide the hardware and take it to a facility that provides the Internet connectivity and basically rent a space there. Or you can use a service like servermatrix.com to rent a dedicated machine with the needed control panel software.
I know that is pretty short, but did that help at all?
Do you have more specific questions?
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Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:44 pm
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UnXpected
Joined: 19 Aug 2004
Posts: 58
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Thankz 
Is just so simple.
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Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:15 pm
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Euler
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Posts: 109
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What are you trying to host and for whom?
a) If you want customization, control, authority, responsibility and you have lots of time and expertise to to contribute, do it yourself.
b) If you want less technical work, less responsibility, less authority, less control and you want to save time, you don't want to learn technologies and/or you just want to jump into the capitalistic ratrace, driving for ever smaller margins on a growing(?) pie and commoditizing services in a crazed sprint for fast growth, outsource it and resell.
All of the decisions you make, starting with market need , ending with accounts receivable - and everything in between - will be answered with either a or b, above. There are no right or wrong answers, only tradeoffs and results.
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Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:57 pm
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bluecity
Joined: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 5
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Your best bet is to start with the old pen and paper!
Firstly decided how you are going to go about it (e.g. Reseller, VPS, Dedicated, etc) most importantly do you know enough to be able to go out and support your clients? If not then I suggest you stop there until you do.
If so then the next best thing to do would be map out any business strategies and ideas you may have, go do some research; find out how much it is going to cost you. Will you need a lot of advertising or not? How much investment is required?
Decide what your targets are, and how you intend to achieve and in what sort of time frame. Do you aim to get 10 or so customers in your first year or 10 in the first 4 months? (BE REALISTIC)
How much times do have to develop the business?
What I have said above is only a tiny amount of what has to be done!
If you don't plan it right, the chances are you will fail.
All I can say from personal experience, the more time, money and thought you put into things the better it will turn out.
As for the hosting industry, as it stands at the moment it is highly completive, they are thousands of companies out their. Some good, some bad, its like any other type of business.
To anyone setting wishing to setup there own business in the hosting market, I would avoid planning to go straight into it and planning on making a profit! Aim realistically, put the effort and time into what you do. And eventually it will pay off.
That’s my 1.5p  (2 cents)
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Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:50 am
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chriswibbs
Joined: 04 May 2006
Posts: 4
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when I started out, I used a reseller account from HostGator.
They were fantastic, and had 'everything' anybody would need to start becoming a commercial web host.
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