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    * getting to know hosting and servers

    hi all, looking for lots of advise. I am interested in starting my own hosting company. I am very green to this entire subject. I need advise on every aspect of this business.

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    Welcome to WHT! I'm sure you will find the information you need.

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    Welcome to Web Hosting Talk. Enjoy your stay!

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    First, you need to decide what services to offer.

    Web hosting:
    cPanel,
    WHM / Reseller

    And maybe long run:
    Virtual Private Servers

    To start selling cPanel you would want either a master reseller, to start selling WHM and end-user cPanel accounts.
    If you want a bit more performance and have a slightly higher budget, you might consider a VPS for around $20 or so, plus the $15 per month license of cPanel.
    If you are ready for more, you want to get a multi-processor / multi-core server with 4+ GB RAM (8+ GB even better) and start selling VPS using openvz and hypervm.

    Also your billing system would be $13 - $16 per month (WHMCS).

    Thats the jist of it cost-wise.

    You much better off if you know linux. And good to have a natural talent in troubleshooting / logical thinking.

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    Do yourself and your customers a favor and run your business on a managed vps or a managed dedicated server until you've been working with *nix OS's for a year or more.

    Learning linux is something best done on a test machine at home, not with production data!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ServerHitch View Post
    First, you need to decide what services to offer.

    Web hosting:
    cPanel,
    WHM / Reseller

    And maybe long run:
    Virtual Private Servers
    You really think that's all there is to choose from?

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    everything depends on everything else

    everything depends on everything else

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    Welcome to this WHT forum. I'm sure you will be able to learn lot from here.

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    Hello welcome to WHT, i'm a new member too so stopping by and saying hi

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