Is it becoming that much easier to be a host?

[Will]

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7 Year olds running hosting businesses? Whatever next?

 

[Matthew]

Haha. When I saw the subject I started thinking of answers to what I thought the question would be and then I saw this Well spotted. I am sure he will be here after school later on today

 

[alpha]

7 Year olds running hosting businesses? Whatever next?

I take it you are having a joke? Not everyone will post their true age on here, for fear of being ridiculed and being called an "old fossil"

 

[monaghan]

I take it you are having a joke? Not everyone will post their true age on here, for fear of being ridiculed and being called an "old fossil"

Ah, but some of us "old fossil's" can bring a lot of experience to the hosting business

 

[Matthew]

I wonder when I turn in to "fossil" status. I just hit 29 recently.

 

[alpha]

I wonder when I turn in to "fossil" status. I just hit 29 recently.

Oh dear I've already started turning into one then

 

[monaghan]

I wonder when I turn in to "fossil" status. I just hit 29 recently.

If 29's fossil status, then I guess I have no hope What comes after a fossil ?

 

[Will]

Oil? Coal?

I think I'm still a fish.

Oh - and feel free to post what you were thinking before opening the thread, Matthew! Do you think it's becoming child's play to run a hosting business?

 

[monaghan]

Oil / Coal - well at least us oldies have some use then

 

[Matt Midgley]

Well, it's definately MUCH easier to host. Reseller accounts are sooooo easy to use. There is very little responsibility for the reseller if they have a great host hosting their reseller account. The thing that's not getting easier is getting customers - and keeping them when they find out that you're 7.

 

[Will]

The thing that's not getting easier is getting customers - and keeping them when they find out that you're 7.

Do you think that, in a way, it is caused by the fact hosting is considered to be so easy? I have about 5 friends who have a hosting business / reseller account of some form so if I need hosting I have no end of places to go. Do you think more and more people host through their friends or even their own computers?

 

[Matthew]

I have about 50 responses to the question... I will try write a big answer about this question.

 

[Matt Midgley]

Do you think that, in a way, it is caused by the fact hosting is considered to be so easy? I have about 5 friends who have a hosting business / reseller account of some form so if I need hosting I have no end of places to go. Do you think more and more people host through their friends or even their own computers?

Yes, I think it's a very big and important factor. I think a lot of people may use friends/their own computers for a few reasons - one being that home connections are becoming faster and faster. Another reason is that there is a lot more flexibility with HDD space and accessibility. If I wanted to put my photo collection online (approx 10GB) it'd be easier to put them on my frinends PC using an external HDD than spending 4 days uploading them. I say accessibility because I don't know how many/if any hosts would let you send them data on a CD/DVD.

I host my sites with a proper host at the moment because I can't be bothered to maintain my own server at home. Then theres the problem of non-static IP's etc. It's easy to put them with another host!

I have a lot of thoughts on the subject but I can't organise them so I'll be quiet now! Like Matthew says, there are a lot of responses to this.

Regards,
Matt M