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Lol - check out the many sites. Although there have been a couple / few "web hosting" books published, by the time they were actually in readers hands the info was obsolete! Search amazon for "web hosting" and i think you will find them.

Again - with ALL due respect to the authors of those books, any info written more than a few months ago, much less a couple years ago is pretty much old news.

Careful - they might suggest raising $300mil in VC money and building a data center with AC ducts large enough to drive a volkswagon through.

Hehe - today's trivia... Anyone remember who made that claim about driving a VW through their AC ducts back in 99 (I believe it was 99)?

Absolutely ... your best bet is to explore all the hosting-related sites as much as possible, check out forums like this one on a daily basis and ask LOTS of questions. Like the saying goes, there's no such thing as a dumb question ... except for the question that's never asked.

Getting a good basic business foundation is also essential, whether you're starting a hosting business or any other type of enterprise. Two excellent resources to help you get started are the Small Business Administration (www.sba.gov) and SCORE (www.score.org): both offer a ton of tools to help you develop a good business plan, research funding options, manage daily challenges, etc.

One parting thought: Always keep your customers Priority Number One. Remember the Golden Rule: Treat customers the way you'd want to be treated yourself.

Good luck!

Shirley Siluk Gregory

for technical stuff go here:

For basic TCPIP stuff and "how the net works 101" head to:

http://www.ipprimer.com/index.cfm

BIND stuff:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/systems/proj/DNS/bog.html

BIND to djbdns:

http://flounder.net/djbdns/bind-to-djbdns.html

apache:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

bash scripting:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

...that is all on the more technical side. There is a business side to webhosting, revenue, margins, etc. He can pick up a high school economics book and breeze through that in a few days.

After html, learn xhtml/css/php

Take a look at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55480

Havent read these books yet, but they look interesting.

Originally posted by lpguitars
Hehe - today's trivia... Anyone remember who made that claim about driving a VW through their AC ducts back in 99 (I believe it was 99)?

From memory it was Equinix:
http://www.equinix.com/index2.htm
and it was a whmag writer who mention the VW thing, I think :)

Greg Moore

Greg - GOOD ONE! You are the winner - and nailed it all the way down to the WHmag article.

Please email me off list for your prize... (no joke).

Thanks!

Thx to all nice guy here !!
Is there any forums like this one ??
In fact, I know webhostingtalk.com only.

A new one out:

Understanding Linux Webhosting (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1583470328/qid=1031696693/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_4/102-6364226-3530563?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)

That's the only one I know of that goes through actual hardware/software setup... others I've seen simply hit the business aspects such as planning, marketing, specialization, etc.