How much....

[pirohost]

How much have you invested into setting up + running your web hosting business, ATM I have spent $2000 + and still going, this includes server fees, various scripts, support, design etc....

 

[ldcdc]

You made me curious. How old is your business? Do you have any customers yet? Did you start with a dedicated server right away, or with a reseller account?

 

[pirohost]

My business was started with in this very month, I started out with two dedicated servers and currently 0 customers.

 

[rentaserv]

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[pirohost]

Rentaserv one lesson that I learned in life is that you will get out what you put in. The money is alot for start up but in the long run I expect it to pay off.

 

[Blue]

Again, no offense, but what is the logic in having 2 dedicated servers when you have no clients?
Wouldn't it make better business sense to lease a single server and expand as necessary?

 

[pirohost]

1 server for my personal sites/free sites, the second server for paid clients.

 

[Marks]

1 server for my personal sites/free sites, the second server for paid clients.

Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to split one server into a small VPS for your VPS and the rest for your paid clients?

 

[pirohost]

I taught about that but I have some high bandwidth sites on the free server/videos. I don't want to mix personal things with business.

 

[Galaxy-Hosts]

I just replied to this same question on a different forum you posted it at
I think it is a good idea to keep free and paid sites seperated. Two servers could get rather expensive. But if you can afford to support them until the business takes off, I think it will be worth it in the long run.

 

[CrystalVPS]

we buy all our hardware upfront on a just in time basis but it works well, we find colo (albeit in our own racks) is a lot more efficient than just renting dedicated servers. We just have our billing system then all our other fees are to our rackspace providers/upstreams/advertising. However I doubt anyone will tell you how much they've invested

 

[kothar64]

I think I am the least invested guy in this thread. I dint spend anything for design, I did all the design by myself. And also I dont have any special scripts installed in my site.
I think I can enhance with these things if I get some more clients, and make my site more attractive just like my service.