How to become the CEO of your very own VPS hosting company in ten easy steps and for under $200.

subigo

Step #1: Purchase a dedicated server from one of the many of cheap datacenters. Datashack can get you started with something for under $100/month.

Step #2: Get yourself a domain and a PayPal account. Under $10.

Step #3: Get yourself a template from themeforest.com. Under $15.

Step #4. Make sure you use the words "we" and "CEO" as many times as possible when editing the template.

Step #5: Install SolusVM. $10.

Step #6: Install WHMCS. $12.

Step #7: Create a Twitter and Facebook page. Head over to fiverr.com and pay a few people to add thousands of likes to your page and followers to your Twitter. Potential clients will definitely sign-up for your service when they see how many other people are following you. You're legit now. Under $20.

Step #8: Create some $1/month Open-VZ plans and post on LET/WHT.

Step #9: Sell out of plans.

Step #10: Sit back and relax. Be proud of yourself. You can now tell everyone you know that you're a CEO and your business is in high demand.

Bonus step: Now that you're a successful businessman, hit up some forums and pretend to know what you're talking about. Let everyone know that you built your business with hard work and care about your customers. Unlike the other web hosting companies out there, you're in this for the long haul and have a solid business plan.

Jack

@subigo said: Step #5: Install SolusVM. $10.

It's actually $9 + $2.25 for the slave... if you go with license pal.

@subigo said: Step #6: Install WHMCS. $12.

$11.95 from http://www.licensecube.com/billing-systems/whmcs-license.php

lele0108

@Jack said: It's actually $9 + $2.25 for the slave... if you go with license pal.

Technically you can do virt on the master too.

Jack

@lele0108 said: Technically you can do virt on the master too.

Yes but that's just silly hosting your clients with an important database...

serverbear

You should put this in a PDF & sell it as a $97 ebook.

concerto49

I like this idea. I'm going to try it. I'll register as Ranty2 and come back. Give me a second.

Jack

@serverbear said: You should put this in a PDF & sell it as a $97 ebook.

I think he should do the ebook for $125

that way he can do the above setups himself.

jarland

Hold on I need a pen

PhoenixVPS

@subigo Damn, I might actually put this on our forum :P

Well said.

seikan

Perfect plan! Now everyone can be CEO~

SDH_TREXTOR

Can you upload this TUT to Youtube please... jarland got my pen!

Spencer

Sounds just like what you did!

subigo

@Spencer said: Sounds just like what you did!

I skipped steps 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and went straight to getting my dick sucked for being so successful.

Parallax

Sounds like what the majority of the hosts that post on LET did, tbh.

Some of them are even posting in this thread!

Randy

Good thread mayb huon can do it

This sounds like a good plan;-)

PhoenixVPS

While $200 won't take you very far by any stretch, many have done this.

Then again, what's the point of starting a hosting business for $200, selling OpenVZ for $1 and then what? Where will this leave you? What's the next step? $200 is a day worth of advertising on Adwords, and that if not everyone clicks on your banner/ad.

KuJoe

I'm doing this all wrong, spending tens of thousands of dollars for a COO title when I could have been a CEO for under $200. :(

miTgiB

@KuJoe said: change my title

Titles are no good without military experience ;)

KuJoe

@subigo said: Step #3: Get yourself a template from themeforest.com. Under $15.

There are plenty of free templates out there and if you find some obscure sites you'll be less likely to find your theme used by another company versus shopping at the same site (themeforest) that every body else shops at.

KuJoe

@miTgiB said: Titles are no good without military experience ;)

LoL, I changed my post but you're still right.

PhoenixVPS

@subigo said: Step #3: Get yourself a template from themeforest.com. Under $15.

I have seen Twitter Bootstrap massacred and mutilated on a few web hosting web sites, one of them even posted an offer here recently. We made a WordPress template with Bootstrap at its core that's used on our web site, but after seeing that I feel like I want to vomit and use a different framework.

LAKid

@subigo The best thread/posting in recent memory!

Randy

Ds has no raid so i guess he is not getting RAID

PhoenixVPS

@subigo @LAKid I agree, way to go, very original.

Brandon

What happened to reselling VPSs?

PhoenixVPS

I hate resellers, especially share hosting resellers.

Randy

What is wrong with Resellers?

LAKid

@Randy ?

breton

@subigo said: Datashack can get you started with something for under $100/month.

OVH can even get you started for free!

VMVPS

Step 11: You can sell your company and clients when you are tired of all these :( Sorry for your clients

Nick_A

Dang I paid too much for WHMCS.

Also, #4 is a url ha