Checklist for opening a hosting company?

Amadex

Balance for this thing: 10.000€

This is the checklist, if I've skipped something correct me:
Reg. of a company.
Rent EPYC and Xeon Gold servers, two for start or to buy cheaper and colocate them in Zagreb (https://www.hrvatskitelekom.hr/poslovni/ict/kolokacija)
IPv4 space
NO IPV6!
Proxmox?
Website
Whmcs
Payment gateway (Stripe, PayPal)
Site langs: English, German, Croatian
Plesk for shared hosting
Promo videos: me & some sexy girls in companys merch

Any ideas more for successful deadpool?

ehab

@AaronSS had some experience as a start up. While he is attending his sunflower farm he can also give valuable advise.... not on woman thou.

ehab

btw, why now ? when prices are getting higher!!!. can't u wait or are you just starting your million laundering mega plan.

Ironia

Get Summer Host Club TM Certified?

Mason

Make sure you have enough money to cover operating costs for the first year or so. Will take awhile until you become profitable (assuming you do).

yoursunny

1. Don't.

Amadex

@yoursunny said:
1. Don't.

My life is boring, I need to spice it up.

TheDP

@Amadex said: My life is boring, I need to spice it up.

At your age, all you need are plane tickets!

ehab

@Amadex said:

@yoursunny said:
1. Don't.

My life is boring, I need to spice it up.

children? they will consume all time.

Amadex

@ehab said:

@Amadex said:

@yoursunny said:
1. Don't.

My life is boring, I need to spice it up.

children? they will consume all time.

I'm not ready for lifetime deals 🤣

ehab

@Amadex said:

@ehab said:

@Amadex said:

@yoursunny said:
1. Don't.

My life is boring, I need to spice it up.

children? they will consume all time.

I'm not ready for lifetime deals 🤣

one advise.
if you are in your 20's then have them now.
then you will have plenty of time in your late 40's.
remember what i said to you.

maybe if you have this much money, invest in something else for example buy real-estate "small shop". Rent out a car etc ... when you do proxmox all what you learn more about is payment gateways, disputes.

wish all the best man.
ehab

Nekki

@Amadex said:

@yoursunny said:
1. Don't.

My life is boring, I need to spice it up.

Dude, if you need to spice things up travel a bit and have some freaky-deaky sex. Don’t start a hosting company for kicks, you’re just throwing you hard-earned down the bog.

vish

Yah, not worth it. blow it on hookers instead

bikegremlin

@Amadex said:

Promo videos: me & some sexy girls in companys merch

Any ideas more for successful deadpool?

Charge separately for the video versions without you in them (pun intended).

On a more serious note, if you haven't done it already:
Business plan.
Branding & marketing.
Knowledge-base - excellent for SEO (and SEM), while also helping with tech. support load. Multilingual (English, German, and Serbocroatian)? Perfect!

These could (should?) all be set in place well before you start.

vyas

Provision extra US $200 for LET provider tag.
And similar amt for LES ads ;-)

Neoon

I don't know, if you really want to advertise on LET anymore.
Especially if you got 10k, you end up in bankruptcy.

dosai

@Amadex said:
Promo videos: me & some sexy girls in companys merch

Good luck. I'm just waiting for the videos.

iVlad

1. Have a business plan and decide who is your target market.
2. What is your nitch? What makes you different than the rest.
3. Start local in your town and move up from there.

stromonic

1. Don't
2. Follow the first point.
3. Follow the second point.

ReadyDedis

My advice would be to try to earn without spending anything first ( i,e reselling ) as a freelancer, do good work, and use that money to setup a company and formalize everything. Start looking for potential clients and then gain their business. Don't look for a low-end market, I would rather have 2~5 high-paying clients rather than a lot of low-paying ones who eventually idle and run away.

bikegremlin

@ReadyDedis said:
My advice would be to try to earn without spending anything first ( i,e reselling ) as a freelancer, do good work, and use that money to setup a company and formalize everything. Start looking for potential clients and then gain their business. Don't look for a low-end market, I would rather have 2~5 high-paying clients rather than a lot of low-paying ones who eventually idle and run away.

See?
No one likes us...

ReadyDedis

@bikegremlin said:

I dont want him to go through the shit I did back in the years.

cybertech

i heard onlyfans earns more

Ympker

@cybertech said:
i heard onlyfans earns more

I am sure the three of us ( @ehab @vyas and myself) would be rockin' it.

bikegremlin

@Ympker said:

@cybertech said:
i heard onlyfans earns more

I am sure the three of us ( @ehab @vyas and myself) would be rockin' it.

Wait... Aren't you already?!
Then who am I following there?!?

Edit:
Just a marketing idea - send a "tegla of domaći ajvar" to every customer, every year!
If that doesn't keep them, nothing will!
A bottle of rakija is also a good idea (one does not exclude the other).

Abdullah

@Ympker said:

@cybertech said:
i heard onlyfans earns more

I am sure the three of us ( @ehab @vyas and myself) would be rockin' it.

your id ? 😛

ralf

@Amadex said:
Promo videos: me & some sexy girls in companys merch

If you do that, nobody will believe you know how to manage your servers.

Ympker

@Abdullah said:

@Ympker said:

@cybertech said:
i heard onlyfans earns more

I am sure the three of us ( @ehab @vyas and myself) would be rockin' it.

your id ? 😛

we are going live really soon @vyas is still creating our AI logo/thumbnail :P

skorupion

@Amadex said: Rent EPYC and Xeon Gold servers, two for start or to buy cheaper and colocate them in Zagreb

Forget about 2 (you won't get 50-100 clients in a sec)

@Amadex said: IPv4 space
NO IPV6!

v4 just rent for about 120-150 eur p/m for a /24

v6 might become a problem, as who you are after is usually firms/bigger customers (who strongly prefer v6 over price they pay), as the smaller ones won't give ya that much money

@Amadex said: Proxmox?

Probably your best bet rn.

@Amadex said: Website
Whmcs

Either DIY it, or pay a company a few k to edit a template (I've edited my template, and copy writing is a pain in the ass)

As for WHMCs, in most hosting templates, also have a template for WHMCS.

@Amadex said: Payment gateway (Stripe, PayPal)

DON'T FORGET TO CALCULATE FEES, AND ADD THEM TO YOUR PRICES.

@Amadex said: Site langs: English, German, Croatian

If you know those languages, then translate them yourself, as it will cost u a Lil big sum for translations.

@Amadex said: Plesk for shared hosting

Good.

@Amadex said: Promo videos: me & some sexy girls in companys merch

@Amadex said: Any ideas more for successful deadpool?

Make this host under a fake Identity, so can't be traced back to ya after you quit.

miu

@ReadyDedis said:
I dont want him to go through the shit I did back in the years.

so instead of that, give him something useful - how to do it, instead of just telling him off

chris

@miu said:

@ReadyDedis said:
I dont want him to go through the shit I did back in the years.

so instead of that, give him something useful - how to do it, instead of just telling him off

I think it was all a joke to be fair mate May be mistaken, maybe @Amadex see's a post-summer gap in the market?