Another question about hosting.

[Shockwave]

This is purely a hypothetical question but I am wondering about getting a webserver and setting up a little web hosting business with a view to making the dbf forums and retro-remakes self-funding.

I think that if I was to use reseller hosting, if I could get 10 people signed up at $8 per month then it would pay for the hosting and the dbf and retro-remakes domain names too.

I was thinking I could offer something like this for $8 per month;

99.9 % uptime.
3gb storage.
10 mysql databases.
3 addon domains.
php5 + Zend optimiser.
Mysql 4+
Python
SSH
SSI
150 email addresses
cron
cpanel
fantastico
phpmyadmin
custom error pages
file manager
awstats
zencart
cubecart

Would anyone be interested?

[benny!]

I am really happy with my current web hoster sofar -
but concerning the price it is more than a fair and good
price IMHO, especially SSH access and crons are very
rare in the lower price segment.

Just out of curiosity about reseller hosting ? Who is responsible
for backups, installing latest security patches and so on ?

[Shockwave]

I would be responsible for backing up the server, which I would do every week, but individual users would ultimately have to have responsibility for backing up thier own accounts.

The company I am thinking of using maintain thier servers really well as far as I can tell anyway.

I would check out the best place that can offer these things first.. I just have a few ideas.

[benny!]

Sounds good.

Generally I would be interested in it. Not right now - but
maybe later in the next year. Since I am still looking for
a SVN server. In addition it would be experiementing with
some TOMCAT servers and so on.

Keep us informed how things evolve please. Thanks!

[combatking0]

I might consider it, but I'm paying annually (which brings the costs down a fair bit), and I am using less than 500MB of my 2GB account.

3GB would be more than enough for me to expand my art gallery in full though, and the down time record is significantly better than my current host.

Certainly one to think about.

[Jim]

Sounds like it might be a lot of work to turn over $80 a month, and you still have to pay your upstream out of that.

Jim