Hello, I'm currently looking to start my own webhost. I have worked for one for the past year, but they just recently went down the drain due to the owner making poor mistakes.

I know how to run a webhost, manage linux and freebsd servers, and I'm quite good with perl. Only problem is money. I have pretty much none. I was wondering if a kind sole (sp?) would sponser us. Like for every account we sell, you would get like $10 or something similar.

Please contact me if your interested in sponsoring us.

Greg Helton
AIM: zero sanity87
Email: zero[at]yupadog.com

You can start a webhost for $99 / month... Just get a RS server. If you can handle all the technical stuff -- then you've got nothing else to worry about. Use PayPal for payments, and get a server with a CP... Then register a domain name.

Okay:

$1 setup, $5 domain, $99 server = $106 * 1.0825 ~ $115 first month.

~ $108 every month after.

You should be able to make MORE than that... And $115 start up cost is *nothing*.

Yeah, its pretty easy to become a webhost I suppose. If you can't pay for a RS server, find a good company and get a reseller account to start out with.

I'm sorry, but the world doesn't need one more idiot web hoster for $0.99. This is my two cents.

If you want to learn web hosting, sure, go with a web provider that can mentor you with a reseller plan (I'll do that for windows on Helm); usually with others when there is a problem, ask them the source of it, and what caused it. Most will just reply, "problem solved".

I just strongly disagree. It is bad for business for someone to think you could get the $99 server and be in the business. It just doesn't work that way. As you read this forum, there all all kinds of issues, venerabilities, hell, just go to Barns & Noble, there are about rows of books dedicated to this stuff.

Do not take paypal if you want to be a real business. You can offer it as a couresy, but pay the bucks and get a merchant.

I don't know why LHP contiunes with the bad advise. The only thing I have been able to figure about him is his site sucks, is unfinished, and he hosts on his cable internet, and, by the way, his box is also hackable (because I've dont it.)

Wanna see the windows guru dressed up for the 2003 prom and the Senior Trip???????????? Total Fraud!

Feel free to hate LHP all you want, but do so via PM or somewheres else, this forum is a place for being helpful. you could very easily have stated logical reasons and suggestions for everything above without the childish and immature comments..

You have been warned about your bad attitude several times by PM.. I suggest you take this public warning as serious and the last!! Mouse

I have been thinking about getting a server and doing some webhosting on my own as well.. but I will be the first to admit my skills are in the hardware (building, setting up, fixing and even running cable) so managing the OS is over my head at the moment..
which is why I read up on the subject when I can.