I want to start a new bussiness. I want to offer a free webhosting to all latinamerican people (spanish). A service like geocities, homestead, etc.

I dont have money i just want to start little. I want a cheap dedicated server with LOT of bandwidth and 30gb storage. im looking a $100-$240 range.

any opinion of my bussiness? any suggestion for dedicated servre company?

cheapunixhosting.com has great servers, at great prices.....Definently contact them!

Just out of curiosity.
Is this going to be exclusivly for latin americans, or they are just the targeted audience. If its exclusive, how do you keep people from other areas from signing up?

:confused:

no rew! I just plan to make the interfaces and the engine in spanish...but anybody can use the service...but english people have geocities and homestead, and httpcity and more....so i want to catch the spanish market.

I need bandwidth..because i dont know what kind of users ill have...im looking for 60gb-100gb. and i want to offer like 30mb storage per user. plus subdomain for each user to access the page.

Ahh ok cool :agree:
Good Luck then :)

RackShack.net offers 300GB for $100/month with a $250 setup fee.

Originally posted by Mr. Amazon
RackShack.net offers 300GB for $100/month with a $250 setup fee. I used my RackShack server to provide free hosting. Please note that you would not be able to host more than 250 sites on Cobalt RaQ 4. I have provided free hosting for some time at saburovo.com and had to stop registrations after it has reached ~200 sites - the server was not up to the load.

If you disable Perl/CGI/PHP/MySQL and will only host .html sites, you can ease the load, but I believe there is still limitation of 250 sites on Cobalt RaQ 4.

Originally posted by dominet
any opinion of my bussiness?On a separate note: the most difficult part in a free hosting business is to find a way to make it profitable. If you don't plan to make it profitable soon you will either have to stop to accept new registrations and pay month after month for the server by yourself, or your server will be overloaded with the sites. In either case this is not very good.

Advertisiments do not bring any money and people do not like 3rd party ads appearing on their free pages. Providing 3rd level domains for free and taking money for registering 2nd level domains together with free hosting seemed to be a good idea, you just have to remember your domains will be at least $5 more expensive than your competitors to pay for free hosting - not easy to attract customers. Selling contact information/profiles/e-mails of couple of thousands users is not practical - there are already hordes of companies selling millions of e-mail addresses for $0.0001 per e-mail.

So really no good business model for free hosting yet. Still.

so its not profitable selling banner space?

It *used* to be profitable, but random untargeted banners displayed on personal homepages has really taken a hit to low levels. Even targeted banners placed on sites like this have taken a hit this past year. Siteowners get less for showing ads and companies get fewer click thrus. This is in general, not specific to any one site and I'm sure there are sites that do well still, maybe not as well as a year ago, but still well.