Starting a free webhosting company...

[schoolbag]

Hey, I need your recommendations:

I wanna start up the FIRST hungarian FREE CPANEL hosting service. I don't know, that how much space and bandwidth do my packages need to have, and do I have to make upgrade plans for posting. Any recommendation is appreciated! Please give me some ideas!

[DPS Computing]

Just a note that on the whole free hosting services are hard to make profitable and are open to abuse and other problems. Think carefully before starting one - you will need quite a bit of funding and it will take quite a bit of hard work and effort.

But if you do decide to go ahead then good luck .

[schoolbag]

I don't have my own server, I just have a master reseller somewhere. How much space will I need if it will become popular?

[developmentxl]

I think you need to work out a few specifics first.

For example; how much space will you be offering to each user and how do you define popular? I think if it's free hosting you probably don't want to be offering over 100mb of webspace and perhaps 500-600MB bandwidth.

Using those packages you could host approximately 60 sites on the standard linux reseller package at eUKHost (for example).

Even though this isn't a great deal, it's plenty for a simple brochure style website hosting and I'm sure if you offer a few e-mail addresses, PHP support and perhaps a mySQL database with your packages people will be quite happy with that.

[rich]

It's not quite a big deal being a web host as there are a lot of them in abundance but just like David said you need to be careful before you get into this business as it also needs a lot of time which you'll need to invest along with some moolah. Planning is the most important factor in starting any business so you need to make a really good plan in executing this one which should be based on strong basics of the particular field.

[DPS Computing]

It will be especially hard to start off a free web hosting comapany - its extremely hard to even make these kind of companies stay afloat as they are harder to make money with .

[Ben]

Originally Posted by DPS Computing

It will be especially hard to start off a free web hosting comapany - its extremely hard to even make these kind of companies stay afloat as they are harder to make money with .

Absolutely true & I can agree and say this from experience. You won't find many profits in starting a free Web hosting business at all, because hence it is free. Another point to make is people demand huge specifications nowadays as they know their greedy specs will be met by some unreliable service. In my opinion, its best to avoid this industry as its a very mixed business & demands change all the time. If you want to get profits, you'd be expected to, a) force ads and b) offer large specs. And the second option is clearly not a viable solution.