Quite a lot more though we have been operating since 2003. Your support is the key to your growth, if you can't provide it people wont be willing to stick around
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Have no web site. Provide web hosting service only for my freelance web design customers. I do not have any web site for web hosting but have reseller account. Hostcats.com gives good service as well as resellerpanel.com (have accounts on both.)
My income for web hosting not so big as from designing. But worth to have.
I never was a reseller really, I jumped in and purchased my first server some 3 years ago and everyone told me I was crazy as there were thousands of hosting and resellers companies out there. In reality I was a reseller of a company called Alabanza when I started.
Without giving away all my earning our revenue is well into the 6 figures, we are growing at about 20% percent per month. -- but we do a lot more than Linux web hosting.
we resell hosted exchange as a reseller, we offer shoutcast hosting and have a few radio stations that we now power, we have unmanaged collocation space in Toronto - We sell windows, and Linux dedicated servers. We are always trying to keep ahead of the curve.
we just completed testing of flash media servers and those will launch on March 1 as well as Microsoft Communication server hosting on the same day! teh Communication Server from Microsoft is still new and i am sure we will be one of the few - we will leverage that with press releases etc and direct email to our existing customers.
the best advice i can give - think more than linux hosting and visit customers in your area and cold call and ring some door bells.
it is working for us -
if you don't have the capital to go this route, then partner with a company that can help you as a reseller by giving you all the automated tools you need to succeed.
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Last edited by 1maverick : 02-17-2008 at 11:11 AM.
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I agree with Tony, your local market will drive more revenue. Also it depends on the packages that you have in place on that server too. If you have oversold packages, yeah you won't make much from that server.
It depends how many clients you get will. More clients mean more income...I earned roughly around 5-6k per month...And you have to make sure that your servers are reliable and service are good in order to keep customer.
Frankly speaking, I never earn money from hosting reselling, but the thing is that if you are really educated webmaster with extra-ordinary thoughts and innovative ideas, you may earn great sum of money from reselling.