Hi all,
I'm a 26 yr-old professional web designer. I currenlty work for a large corporation as a full time employee. I also currently own a reseller hosting biz provides virtual hosting with 120+ clients, many of them are my web customers. I'm thinking about openning a brand new business provides reseller plans just like voxtreme/mchost since many people have asked me about it. However, things are getting out of hand, and I need some helps. What I want to do is getting managed dedicated server or servers, and a good partner, who will help me set up and run this biz. Everything(expense + time + profits) will be devided equally (half & half).

I have some requirements:
1. Must be at least 22 yrs old and serious about it
2. Must have strong experience as a Unix System Admin
3. Must be familar with hosting biz

If anyone's interested? Please PM me.
Thanks

Have you tried putting this in the job offers section also - might gt a better response.

<<MOD NOTE: Moved to Related Offers, as I'm not quite sure Job Offers fits>>

Goodluck!

Hi all,
I'm a 26 yr-old professional web designer. I currenlty work for a large corporation as a full time employee. I also currently own a reseller hosting biz provides virtual hosting with 120+ clients, many of them are my web customers. I'm thinking about openning a brand new business provides reseller plans just like voxtreme/mchost since many people have asked me about it. However, things are getting out of hand, and I need some helps. What I want to do is getting managed dedicated server or servers, and a good partner, who will help me set up and run this biz. Everything(expense + time + profits) will be devided equally (half & half).

I have some requirements:
1. Must be at least 22 yrs old and serious about it
2. Must have strong experience as a Unix System Admin
3. Must be familar with hosting biz

If anyone's interested? Please PM me.
Thanks

I would advise you to avoid a partner at all costs. Especially someone you don't know.


Just my 2 bytes, your mileage may vary.

I would have to go with Realityn on this, if you have a friend or co-worker that you know and trust try them first, other wise I would suggest not having a partner but rather a staff member to help and not manage like yourself. Having a Partner who you don't know very well can be hazardous.

The worst business structure known to man. As an accountant, over the last 30 years, I have always advised against partnerships and the client has always regretted it when ignoring my advice. They don't work. Both partners always think the other one has the better deal, is taking advantage. How do you resolve disagreements? Do you continue to vote 1 versus 1 ad infinitum.

Bring on an associate....pay a commission....even share profits....but don't bring on a partner. If you can't do it all, use a third party for some of the work, such as server management, until you can afford a staff. There are plenty of ways to pull it together, but a partnership is not one of those I recommend.

If you fail to heed this advice, make sure you have a carefully drawn up partnership agreement that clearly outlines each partners responsibilities and rights as well as compensation. Furthermore, put heavy emphasis on a well designed section in that agreement that addresses what happens when one or both of the partners wants to terminate the partnership agreement.

You should trust someone you dont know.
Trust me I know, I've tryed and its sucks

David
HopHost.com

I have had a lot of experience with partners, good friends to people I didn't know. It was always a bad experience. Finally I decided to launch a business by myself, funded solely by me and it's doing great.

I have been in partnerships before and it works. The thing about partnerships is a lot about how you handle interpersonal issues and not just about having a legal contract done up =) . When you have to go dig up your contract to get your partner to do something or to enforce your rights, your partnership is already on a downhill.

as with any form of business ownership, there's pros and cons, and that varies from country to country. I am only familiar with UK/Commonwealth legislation. So I probably won't comment on the pros or cons part.