Hi,

is there room for a new hosting company?

with there being big big companys like hostgator, etc.
is there any point in anybody starting up a new company offering

web/resellers or
ircd or
ftp

do you think an ftp hosting company would be worth it?

please post your honest opions,

many thanx
=)

There is always room. You just have to be able to provide something unique to your clients. If you have a small group of them you can consider yourself successful if it pays all bills with a little bit left over for you. But it's definitely not easy for new hosting companies due to all the competition. So it is an investment and a risk.

and,
do you think,

web/reseller or ircd or ftp hosting...?

what about them? offering them? web/reseller hosting is just the basic stuff most hosts offer. IRC is different, you may be able to get that done but you'd have to invest more in finding a server that would allow it. And FTP hosting is basically file hosting or backup hosting.

i was thinking ircd host because its diffrent, and i no alot about it,

but ftp hosting do you think its worth even thinking about that?

If you have the space for it, but what do you want to do with it? Provide backup space? or file sharing?

You'd probably find the most success with IRC because I don't see many offers of that.

ok then,
and it would be like ftp hosting
file hosting for more like backup space, what do you think?

If you put your mind to it you can do anything really.

ok, but all i was thinking is whats the demand for file/irc hosting,

if not alot of people want it then theres not really a great deal in bothering,

where as web hosting people are always going to want that

and as it happeneds, i no an awfull lot about irc... =)

I couldn't tell you with any certainty. I never looked into it.

ok thank you, im hoping other people will leave comments aswell,

this way i get a few opinions

File hosting you've got filesend.net rapidshare, megaupload, etc. Those dominate that market.

IRC is being phased out cause we got AIM, Live, Yahoo, Google, etc which is much better forms for communication.

You can do shared / reseller hosting or you can even jump into the game server market and provide those teamspeak servers like Ventrillico or whatever it's called.

no but i ment the kind of file hosting where,
u get a hostname
username
and password with x amount allocated space

File hosting you've got filesend.net rapidshare, megaupload, etc. Those dominate that market.

IRC is being phased out cause we got AIM, Live, Yahoo, Google, etc which is much better forms for communication.

You can do shared / reseller hosting or you can even jump into the game server market and provide those teamspeak servers like Ventrillico or whatever it's called.

just so you are aware, half your website doesnt even work, and isnt even correct...

thank you for your comment, but im guessing ur a new company aswell

File hosting you've got filesend.net rapidshare, megaupload, etc. Those dominate that market.

This may be true. However, a business venture that is well planned, coordinated and executed can move to the top of the ladder and become an industry leader. Especially in the web hosting field where the barriers to enter the industry are virtually non-existent.

just so you are aware, half your website doesnt even work, and isnt even correct...

thank you for your comment, but im guessing ur a new company aswell

Actually I've been around for a while. My join date tells all as I joined here when I started back in 07 ;)

I know there are a few kinks in my site mostly because I'm waiting on a company to get back to me about what is available before I do pricing on servers.

Actually I've been around for a while. My join date tells all as I joined here when I started back in 07 ;)

I know there are a few kinks in my site mostly because I'm waiting on a company to get back to me about what is available before I do pricing on servers.


thats kwl, had a decent chat with you over your live support anyway, you explained there you was waiting on a company to let you nopriceing,

( for futuer refrance people, matt is a decent guy, even tho he didnt get asale at the end of it he still helped me out, just wat i would look for in any company i was to use +1 for matt & hostmist =) )

anybody else have anyideas what is in demand on hosting at the moment?

Just because there isn't an overly high demand for a certain service doesn't mean it's not worth exploring. If the competition is nonexistent, then it's easier for you to dominate that market.

The question is: Will the customers you gain after subtracting the competition's customers from the available customer base bring you enough revenue/profit to make the venture worth it?

this is true, i can understand what you mean,im not saying i dont want to try to make this work, but so many people have said no to ftp/ircd, and web/reseller there is just so many companys at the moment, i dont really no what is left

Allot of people said no to Steve Job's and Bill Gate's ideas as well. There's always room to innovate.

yes,this is true ok thank you for that, made me think about a few things, ill look around it and see where i else up in a few months, if its still something i wish to do, then ill do it, this way it gives me time to think about it and look into it in alot more detail ... ?

It's simple, there is always room.

You should have the will to start and succeed. Do your homework well before jumping into it, see what unique you can offer to the section of the market you are going to target. Be honest to your clients and to your business.

FTP-based file hosting, I think it'd take a lot to convince me that that's a viable market. Most of the "backup space" providers do rsync/ftp/samba, not just trivial FTP.

With IRC hosting your chief problem is going to be footing the bill of a DDoS-protected network, because one kid getting your stuff attacked and your reputation is shot to hell... you'll be considered just another linux-kiddie with a shell server. If your business plan can cope with the protections required, I'm sure there's still money to be made in IRC.

Don't listen to the folks saying IRC is being phased out or dying, it's been "dying" for years. The fact is there's still over a half million users on some form of IRC, and many of the people still clinging to it are every bit degenerate enough to spend money on it. With a solid plan, some of that money could be yours. :)