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How to tell if you webhosting package is unique enough as a beginner
Stormkeeper5312
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Hello, I want to start a web hosting business that primarily sells VPSes. Ive been trying to think of a unique market position and have settled on one. Is there a way to determine if theres a market for it? I was planning on a low investment trial reselling OVH VPSes however I dont know if I should commit the time to setup all the infrastructure. Ive also priced things out and it should turn a profit per customer. However I have no existing network or clients.
Its a VPS with a "lot of (resold) extras" for a monthly fixed price so its a lot of plugging things together. Plus Ill probably have to make a custom dashboard since I'm too poor for belesta and Id probably want a lot of custom features.
Should I just go for it? Is there a way to guage intrest in your hosting package before hand? I was planning on posting it here but I dont know if its appropriate. How do you all find new hosting packages?
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Business-wise I’d avoid LET. Why sell to those who wants to pay the absolute least? I doubt a lot of people here wants OVH VPS but more expensive, even if you add things on top of it.
Only way you’d ever see me post any VPS offers on here is if I wanted to deploy my own racks and network and simply wanted some of my costs covered while I’m building out my infrastructure to serve a different clientele.
I probably should've posted on WHT, or maybe HN but thats a bit too big pond small fish. I dont actually know where to post. Advertising will be a hell of a challenge. I get the sense there's enough 1$ oversubscribed VPS's around
If you are willing to pay $8 per year, NameCrane offers a free Belesta license with their web hosting services.
It seems to me that you’re a little late getting into this business
If you sell shared hosting or VPS, you'll never be unique.
Cloudflare's uniqueness comes from their Workers and Zero Trust products.
Can you come up with an idea?
Short answer: there's isn't a demand for it. Whatever it is.
If there was a demand for it, someone would probably already be doing it, at a cheaper price that you want to charge for it.
Why would you even want to get into this niche then? Is it just because you think it's profitable?
Most people don't want those extras. Those that do are too small a market.
If there was a magic way of determining success without trying, we wouldn't have any failures in this world. We have plenty of failures in this world.
You have to pay $200 for the privilege of promoting your stuff here, and only 1 deal per 2 weeks (see rules).
This is correct.
Lowend buyers just wants a low price, they are not interested in any extra features.
I can just look at myself when I buy lowend. The only feature I use on my vps's is the deploy button, after that I will probably not login to the panel ever again unless there is a problem with the vps. I can not see any kind of feature I would pay extra for here.
When I do shop for extra features I go with Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Scaleway etc. They provide every feature you could think of on infrastructure that is second to none and at a price that I'm guessing you could never match.
So you are kind of stuck somewhere in between where there really is no market at all. It really sucks, I know.