[NTLUG:Discuss] setting up a web-hosting company

[cbbrowne@hex.net]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:39:28 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
David Neeley <dbneeley at yahoo.com>  said:
> One of the benefits of a hosting service is that they often have things 
> like "canned" software routines for getting sites up quickly, monitoring 
> and reporting software to determine your traffic, and even sometimes 
> availability of credit card acceptance on an expedited and cheap basis.

One thing Chris Cox mentioned in discussions yesterday is that credit
card acceptance is problematic unless you've already got a
well-established business.  It may be a whole lot easier to deal with
something like PayPal...

> Later, as your service grows, you can consider co-location of your
> own machine. With the low-profile rack mount systems out there, rack
> space can be pretty cheap.

It could be downright _easy_ to save the value of a computer in a year
by moving from tower to rackmount; if you can save $100/month, that
buys some nice rackmounting :-).

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