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I wasn't expecting to be able to earn a living by just a $50 investment. I am trying to understand what is needed to have a sustainable model. If it doesn't work in a small scale, how big of a scale does it need to be implemented at for it to be profitable?
I see... yea, that would work. I just need to have an IP for each customer, I wouldn't be able to oversell that. But, RAM, HDD, CPU, those could oversold a little bit.
I doubt anyone had any problems with running these commands:
Setting those up is not even the tip of the iceberg. And it's the reason why people think it's so easy.
What should I be looking out for? What do people have issues with?
no offense, but I think you should try and get a job working for a VPS host first, to learn how everything works, and then start your own company. we don't really wanna see another failed host on here (and this is from a consumer, not another host worried of competition)
I've been configuring RHEL and Solaris Servers for a little over 7 years now. How much more experience do I need?
You have to be proficient in server management first. Then as I said, you have to be proficient with the technology itself. And this is just for the start.
There are a million variables involved in it.
You have to have a great understanding of the hardware aspect. You have to be able to do resource and abuse monitoring and acting accordingly. Being knowledgeable enough to support the clients.
Hosting is also a business. It is not simple math. You can't just split the server cost into x and determine your product price. You have to have a great understanding of the market you target. You have to be able to foresee growth and plan accordingly.
Or you can ignore all of these and get a cheap dedicated server with cheap IP space and start selling and shut down after wasting your customers' and your time and money.
If you don't want to listen to @serverian you could just be like me and start up a VPS division with absolutely no experience, sell ridiculously stupid plans on LET for a few months, garnish tens of thousands of dollars from it, go bankrupt and into debt, then pick yourself up and go smooth sailing after learning from all your mistakes
Wow, that's the most to the point statement I saw from you in LET over the time! In 3 lines you concentrated all that happened to your company and you, but till now you haven't tell the whole story. Ι sincerely hope you DID learn from your mistakes and the running of your company will be better than it was... Best of luck!
What was it that dragged your business down the first time around (before the smooth sailing and all the learning from mistakes that took place) ?
I hope everyone understands here that I'm not trying to be stubborn or rude, I just want to understand this whole VPS business a little better.
I dunno whatever could it be.
If you were as honest throughout as you were in that post, John, you could probably make a very interesting (and reflective) blog post/forum post.
I was a greedy motherfucker that wanted all the money in the world and didn't know how to manage money when I got it.
Everyone makes mistakes, but very few admit it.
Well, this was very informational. Thank you everyone for providing your input!