How much is your hosting company making a month? Why or what has been done to bring it to this amount?

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I think that most companies would want to keep this confidential.. you are not going to get many replies.

Not enough!!

not wnough yet but we are getting there :-)

Considering the hours that are put into it, the pay sucks :) Good thing I don't do this for the money!

Making enough so that my husband quit his job and now works full-time for me - remodeling our house. :D

--Tina

your profit levels are ... low
waaaay low

I mean, I bust $1000 a month all to hell and I started 4 months ago.

I don't see why people won't answer, it's not like it shows your vote (er it doesn't does it?) so why not own up to the big bux!

People in the web hosting business aren't in it for the bucks, their in it for the people :D

Dylan

Their in it for the People

Ha Ha Ha Ha

:)

Thats good for a laugh

People are on every corner hungry if you like people that much go help them because I do ! ! !

People are really in it for money but will never say it ! !

More than $7k starting in may 2001 :)
But my country don't let me take the money out of the bank :bawling: :bawling:

Interesting poll results. Most of the people are either LOOSING or making more than $1000.

Originally posted by Dylan
People in the web hosting business aren't in it for the bucks, their in it for the people :D

HAHAHA how true... errr by the way how come my cgi scripts don't work? What's cgi?

if its your main business and you arent making *at least* $ 1K / month then you really should look at why!

Fair enough it takes a couple of months to get off your feet but realistically you shouldnt be losing any money at all.....

Really once youre more than a month or two old you should be pulling down 1k/month profit or its not worth your time to do it, as running a business does require a lot of time and energy.

-Brendan

I also don't understand how anyone can survive on less than $1,000 a month? I think this poll is slightly skewed to small/part time host. I'd be more interested in seeing some of the higher end numbers.

Yeah this poll seems kinda of small in numbers area.

As for turning a profit in 1 month or 2. I think that is debatable. If you roll out with your own servers etc this may not hold true. Even if your a reseller this may not, if you are learning and dont know how to market/advertise it may take a few months to make any money.

But I do see how people could survive on less than 1000 a month, you must realize not everyone lives in large industrialized countries. 1000 in the usa is like 20,000 in other places.

Originally posted by uuallan
I also don't understand how anyone can survive on less than $1,000 a month? I think this poll is slightly skewed to small/part time host. I'd be more interested in seeing some of the higher end numbers.

You're forgetting... not everyone lives on U.S. currency ;)

And still not everyone is old enough to use up $1,000 fast. Imagine when you were a kid. $20 was a lot of money!

Originally posted by Skeptical

And still not everyone is old enough to use up $1,000 fast. Imagine when you were a kid. $20 was a lot of money!

$20 of my own private money -- not slated for the mortgage, or the cars, or the 401k, or the wife's trips to Kohls, and any of the other places where my money seems to go -- is still a lot of money to me :D.

$1,000/month doesn't even cover our electric bill.

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hmmmm...

Now interesting, when I first read the poll question and voted, I assumed this to ask how much do you make per month in gross income? Now as I read the responses it would seem that many assumed the question was asking for net profits.

There are many reasons why a person might not be netting >$1000 after "just a couple of months" not the least of which is business costs :eek: which are covered in nauseating depth in a different thread :) I mean a person could end up racking up some $3-4k/mo. in costs easily, and that's a heck of a lot $5 virtual accounts to spin profit off of that. :)

I suspect there are some small businesses out there that make their primary $$ at the Main Job but are doing hosting mostly as a moonlighting enterprise. For instance I have a tourist gift shop which is on the internet. After five years online and well over a Gig of traffic/mo. on that site, I now find myself tied to the server 24/7 via pager and am never >10 minutes from a dial-up connection at any time. I carry my laptop everywhere, roll up my sleeves and get to work. Now why should I not sell this service, commitment and tenacity as well? I'm doing it anyway... so how is it a significantly greater drain? It's not; I'm already doing the work, and I've already ironed out "helpers" to fix things I don't know how to do myself.

At this point my clients pay for about 1/2 the monthly server cost. Still operating at a loss then, but the good news is it's really helpful to have all these write-offs at tax time. The joy is largely in the job itself, I love screwing around on the computer, even if I do have a purpose. :) With the implementation of a marketing program this spring my goal is to have the hosting biz cover all its business expenses plus pay for my rent every month. There is no reason why I should not be able to turn this kind of profit with an aggressive campaign and good customer service.

Then I don't have to work so many long hours with the tourists in the shop. :) Sounds like heaven!!!

:D Bailey

This is getting * * HOT * *

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