The story of the creator of the hosting-one-day
In the recent 2005, I just started to study * nix operating systems, my friend owned a small local network and asked me to help him set up a billing server, this was my first acquaintance with FreeBSD. I mastered it without any problems and got to work with a big city Internet provider, where I worked until 2006. Then there was a graduation from the university and many other important matters, but it so happened that in even less distant 2007 I was already working hard for 2 large American hosters. My responsibilities were to solve the technical problems of the clients of these hosting providers, I really liked the work, and I saw how these two companies grow and earn a lot of money.
Naturally, I literally got into the idea of creating my own hosting, not just “creating” it is not clear how, but creating using commercial billing and a control panel, renting servers in the American DC and with the right approach to business. Here should follow "but there was one but", but there is nothing of the kind. My two friends and I really rented our first server in Scranton and bought all the necessary software without any problems.
Then I changed my job, there was a certain next “upgrade”, and I became the team leader for the technical staff in one small company: a lot more fakaps, but a bit more free time, which allowed me to take up my own, or even more precisely, “our” hosting more closely. People did not have any problems with paying for our hosting and, as it turned out, quite a lot of people needed this hosting. Exactly so, not “stable”, not “cheap” and not “the best in the world”, but one that would just work fine and they would receive answers to their already few questions. There were no special problems with this, and after 3 months we already had about 15-30 clients - friends, friends of friends, people who “recommended” us and so on.
It’s a shame to say, but then we still had no sane website, and I must say that we were lucky that all three culprits of the undertaking were each capable in their own way: I had and have a good reputation in the notorious WHT forum, and I am able to “negotiate” with DC, and with clients, I have a good technical base and are familiar with the basics of billing, the second person is a good designer and programmer and already had good experience with billing systems (and it is worth noting that then he “grabbed” a very good domain for our entire project) and the third is connoisseur of h tml + css and a good customer support.
We made the site in a fairly short time and, as “foreign” customers became interested in us, bought a normal account at the payment gateway (payment acceptance system), and what is called “launched” hosting — all kinds of advertising on forums, coupons for google adwords and others advertising methods.
It’s worth mentioning right away what our hosting was and will be - all three together and unanimously decided that the hosting would be whiter than snow - no adult, spam, phishing and other materials, we don’t “quickly respond to complaints”, we try very hard to avoid them , “Slowly harness, but drive fast,” something like that.
Again, it’s worth writing “but we didn’t take into account / but there was one fact / but we started to quarrel”, but nothing happened, moreover, we even became more tolerant of each other, if earlier we could argue for three hours over the design of a small button on site, now roofing felts have become better buttons, roofing felts pay less attention to details, but in general the process is faster.
I could continue this story indefinitely, but I’ll just say that at this stage we overcame that “initial” line which we were a little afraid of at the very beginning, almost all of our difficulties are predictable and quickly resolved, and most importantly, our clients sometimes just write tickets that we are a good company, and this is really the best praise.
So - wish us good luck!
Naturally, I literally got into the idea of creating my own hosting, not just “creating” it is not clear how, but creating using commercial billing and a control panel, renting servers in the American DC and with the right approach to business. Here should follow "but there was one but", but there is nothing of the kind. My two friends and I really rented our first server in Scranton and bought all the necessary software without any problems.
Then I changed my job, there was a certain next “upgrade”, and I became the team leader for the technical staff in one small company: a lot more fakaps, but a bit more free time, which allowed me to take up my own, or even more precisely, “our” hosting more closely. People did not have any problems with paying for our hosting and, as it turned out, quite a lot of people needed this hosting. Exactly so, not “stable”, not “cheap” and not “the best in the world”, but one that would just work fine and they would receive answers to their already few questions. There were no special problems with this, and after 3 months we already had about 15-30 clients - friends, friends of friends, people who “recommended” us and so on.
It’s a shame to say, but then we still had no sane website, and I must say that we were lucky that all three culprits of the undertaking were each capable in their own way: I had and have a good reputation in the notorious WHT forum, and I am able to “negotiate” with DC, and with clients, I have a good technical base and are familiar with the basics of billing, the second person is a good designer and programmer and already had good experience with billing systems (and it is worth noting that then he “grabbed” a very good domain for our entire project) and the third is connoisseur of h tml + css and a good customer support.
We made the site in a fairly short time and, as “foreign” customers became interested in us, bought a normal account at the payment gateway (payment acceptance system), and what is called “launched” hosting — all kinds of advertising on forums, coupons for google adwords and others advertising methods.
It’s worth mentioning right away what our hosting was and will be - all three together and unanimously decided that the hosting would be whiter than snow - no adult, spam, phishing and other materials, we don’t “quickly respond to complaints”, we try very hard to avoid them , “Slowly harness, but drive fast,” something like that.
Again, it’s worth writing “but we didn’t take into account / but there was one fact / but we started to quarrel”, but nothing happened, moreover, we even became more tolerant of each other, if earlier we could argue for three hours over the design of a small button on site, now roofing felts have become better buttons, roofing felts pay less attention to details, but in general the process is faster.
I could continue this story indefinitely, but I’ll just say that at this stage we overcame that “initial” line which we were a little afraid of at the very beginning, almost all of our difficulties are predictable and quickly resolved, and most importantly, our clients sometimes just write tickets that we are a good company, and this is really the best praise.
So - wish us good luck!