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    Hosting Challenges

    Dear Friends,

    I am planning to start webhosting service. In the beginning I am planning to start with reseller hosting. Just want to understand various challenges as a web hosting service provider.

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    And what is your questions?

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    Of all the challenges you will face as a provider, by far the biggest, most important is fraud.

    Fraud orders can easily put a company out of business if left unchecked due to chargeback fees, so you want to be careful and closely review each and every order you receive.
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    Not only fraud, but also spammers and people who use your services for all the wrong reasons.

    I would also say that competition is also a huge challenge to overcome, but once you get a small customer base going it gets easier.

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    Even if you fight fraud using maxmind along with manual review (spammers will 90% get caught with this) you ll have to deal with much more factors.

    Webhosting industry is huge and its a really hard market. You need a good strategy in order to have an acceptable income.

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    Fraudsters and abusers are probably the biggest challenge as a providers. You must be proactive in monitoring the daily activity of your company to ensure that these kind of clients doesnt get in and do their malicious activities in your webhost.
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    Fraud has to be number one issue in this market this and spam / people who will abuse your service and business terms of use.


    It's not all that easy it's not like you plug and play you need to first build then configure then customize and then try hard and a smart way to make business happen and make that money start flowing in .


    The best piece of advise I can give you is to take your time and don't rush anything , always monitor your sign ups and last but not least think outside the box. Try to develop a business idea and do things others don't do , can't do and won't do . You have to be different offer something a way no one else can. Be unique.

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    Similar to any other business, you must be prepared for the worst while you are working towards achieving the best.

    One of the biggest challenge that many enthusiastic start-ups come across, is a strong business strategy to work a way forward. You need to have the prices right, the support right and most importantly your services right.

    If you are keen towards offering your customers with the best service/experience, your responsibility to stay there and fulfill their expectations from you, grows.

    This is ofcourse, after you've fixed on ways to avoid the issues as others have described above.

    All the best for your new venture !
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    It is good to study the area of field yourself if you're starting up a business. We can give you answers here, but the best is to find out and think more yourself.

    There is no ready made solution or guide book for this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rapidtiger View Post
    Just want to understand various challenges as a web hosting service provider.
    Find customers is one of the challenges
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    Quote Originally Posted by PremiumHost View Post
    Find customers is one of the challenges

    Big lol, true it is ! It's the core of all challenges faced in this business.
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    - Marketing due to competition
    - Ensuring you meet your goal up-time etc always.

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    Right, one of the biggest challenges in reseller hosting is too many competitors that are on the market already and you need to offer someting special to attract new customers.

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    What are the ways to prevent fraud orders. Can it be fully prevented by manual approval. What is the maximum loss in worst case scenario.

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    A challenge I notice lately is to be different and think outside the box. It's 2014 almost 2015 we are 15 yrs into 2000s a lot of people can Brian storm big but a challenge is being able to provide something that no one else can provide so you have the control over it .

    Most times these days when something new comes out a week or even days later there are others trying to make the same thing just differnt

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    Fraud can be handle, But finding new customers is real challenge
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    How does one know an order is a fraud order? Let's say the business is using is WHMCS as the billing panel.

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