Can anyone tell me how to g oabout setting one up?

Best Wishes
Oliver

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=94

Read those tutorials, :) All of them, make sure you put your search option from 30 days to All. That way you get them all.

Yes, WHT has a great collection of tutorials for you to read. But, one of the major things I can recommend you is: Don't automatically go for the cheapest reseller account, just so you can offer amazing pricing to your customers!

Yep. Go with the one that is reliable and with good support. Also don't pick the first host you see, look at other sites as well.

Price is good too, see if you can get the most for your money.

Hang around the forums for a while before you start your business so you can get a feel for the web hosting industry. Also start with a reseller account, but don't just get the cheapest you can find.

I would suggest getting a support job with a current company, ask if they can help you as much as they can so you can learn more because when you start your company, you will be mostly all your company has for support. So, you best know much. :) Don't expect to get paid either, just do some free work to learn more.

Lot's of good advice here. Let me ask this... I have no idea how to fix cars.. heck I can't even pump my own gas! I heard that fixing cars can make me $$ though. How can I start a car fixing business? I also need to know how many cars I can fit in one garage, so I can make as much $$ as possible... Also, can the Acme $20 1,000 piece tool kit help me get the job done?

OK, so I don't know the "level" of the original poster's handle on IT, etc. but IMHO, if you need to ask "how to start a business" in any industry, then you're not ready to do it. So, help the industry lower the amount of companies that are "fly by night", by not entering it -- UNTIL you are truly ready.

My post is not meant to be rude (though it may be to some), but a "reality check" and perhaps a dose of common sense.

Cheers,
Carlos

While I do agree with Carlos, I must add that, that was rude to anyone who is considering. Granted the original post was very open ended, maybe he actually knows more than you give credit.

But, please understand where Carlos is coming from. This is a problem that happens all too often and puts a bad name on some of the smaller companies that are truly legit. If too many fly-by night companies enter the industry it will start to give smaller companies a very bad reputation.

DON'T TRY TIL YOU ARE READY. You will need about a year experience before considering, at the least. Best of Luck.

Before you start your own, I'd reccomend doing work for another webhost!

Originally posted by y081302x
Can anyone tell me how to g oabout setting one up?

Best Wishes
Oliver

Do you actually have any specific questions?

Ackoo, your post is on track and what I was trying to get at. I sometimes wonder if community members should avoid helping anyone who doesn't have the skills or the knack to help themselves. IMHO, its better for the industry to see the hosts that can't even grasp "Hosting Biz for Dummies" go back to selling snake oil. As this starts to happen, the perception of hosts in general should rise (maybe a notch above used car lot salesman ;) )

Again, sorry to be direct! I'm not even a host -- I'm just on a mission to do a little something to make the industry better. :)

Cheers,

Carlos A. Camacho
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well, I am glad that you are trying to do such a bold thing carlos. I truly believe that the industry needs a little help. But the truth is, whenever an industry has barriers to entry as low as they are, competitors will continue to enter. Its just how business works.

The one advice Id give, from personal experience, ahem...is to have a WHOLE LOT OF MONEY sitting around to use to promote it. I mean alot. At least $500, if not more.

And then do what everyone else said.

is to have a WHOLE LOT OF MONEY sitting around to use to promote it. I mean alot. At least $500, if not more.If you ask me, $500 is a very, very low budget for promoting a hosting business. The biggest mistake new hosts make are (IMO) the poor planning and failure to realise the real costs of being in business. I continue to be amazed by the very low budget reseller accounts people buy, by the unreasonably low prices they ask for their services etc.

Oliver, leaving Carlos's harshness aside, he does have a point. No one can give you a complete answer to your very general question. You have to do a lot of searching and reading on your own. Nothing can replace that.

I'd say a business plan is one of the most important steps to complete before starting up. Next to that is learning how to use the search feature here.