Hey guys, what do you think of web hsoting business? too saturate? Any idea where can i find the report on how many poeple interest in getting web hosting? I could estimate the supply by doing a search engine query such as "web hosting in xxxx" but how to find the demand? I think overture can give very limited answer, may be some market research company could give answer? cheers, toby
I don't think i understood your question. But every internet user that feels to have a website will want a web hosting. Such stats i don't know from where you can find...maybe try some web hosting journal.
You are right, he wish to do the business. I\'m quite curious too, how much to spend on sell hosting? How about reseller hosting?
It is way too saturated, just go on google or any search engine and type: web hosting, there will be thousands and thousands of them... dont waste your time with it.
NOT quite, if you do "cheap web hosting", there's only 15 million result. I could get my flash game site into first page of "free flash games" which is around 80 million result, so I do not think it's way saturated. The problem is: how many online users are there that interest to have web hosting and what niche is available? let's help each other brainstrom. toby
People tend to go with established web hosts and the new players would have a hard time wrestle for the same customer base. Of course with differentiation by specifically targetting a niche market and providing the service required, you would be able to gain some foothold in the market.
Web hosting business is a tough and expensive business to start at. Without a high monthly budged to cover the server cost, the advertising and marketing and the support staff. Every day that passes new competition is coming up, the big guys that have high budged can oversell or at least sell hosting plans for bargain cheap and offer high end services, which is really hard to beat.
What kind of businees you want to do,do u want to start your own company or just a reseller...Yes webhosting business is saturated,but again if you are good with your service...u will surely lead the market...Good Luck
thanks everyone. Yes, i want to have my own "company" (it's online business and maybe in the future, i could formally register a company), that's the plan. Currently my earning is around 1000$ and i'm thinking of spending half of that on marketing/hosting payment. What do you think? And could someone elaborate on Niche market? I don't quite understand that but i've heard a lot. Could someone explain by giving of one niche hosting site?
Niche basically means that you target a specialized market instead of offering web hosting to a general market. Some Niche hosting could be something like myspace.com or blogger.com where it caters to a special groups who may have some special needs. You could also target a specific user group such as perhaps students, sports fans or something.
I think in the local area e.g. provide webhosting for SME's businesses in your city/town is an opportunity.
Yea, if you are aiming for a certain niche WITHIN web hosting you should see some profit, (Example: having a host that is only geared towards MySpace for images, audio etc. MySpace kids are dumb and will probably buy it.) also using AdWords will help you out alot. Other then that, yes the market is huge and saturated find something new and original.
Why do not check the number of website through google.com,that can prove how is the web hosting market going on.
webhosting market is very conjusted and competitive , but quality lacks when anyone want for little expense , you can first try with small then go for big , to be safe from loss.
if you want to buy the www.greenlush.co.uk AJAX tempalte (i'll re-brand the header) can include billing center and everything if your intrested? very attractive template and as you know i wont be needing it anymore since i have a FANTASTIC new website currently in beta. I would sell it to you for a discounted price since Toby, your a great friend and i look forward to seeing you own Cambodia/Thailand... infact lets say Asia's biggest web hosting business. You know i have years of experiance in the web hosting industry so feel free to contact me anytime with questions
thanks for all input mate , all inputs are really useful and thanks for sharing. Probably a local hosting would be a best way to start. And jason, how much are you looking at, mate? *people suggests to start small, so I probably looking for very low price design and use clientexec for my billing.
If you have a unique selling point that your target customers need then you will sell - doesnt matter how saturated or undersaturated the market is. To do webhosting properly you need to have your "own" servers as otherwise you are at the mercy of your reseller to do any maintanance or resolve many customer issues. Realistically you should have multiple servers to cover off both *nix and windows account types as there is thankfully a growing resurgance of people wanting windows hosting for .Net After that you just need to do the hard bit of finding your niche/ unique selling point. I personally wouldnt go for the local market as I see little to no prospects there. Why would you want your host to phyically be near you - the servers themselves will be away in some datacentre anyway? If you are the technophobic sorts that likes the idea of being able to meet your suppliers face to face then you will almost certainly have delegated aspects such as host sourcing to your web designers anyway. If you are not a technophobe then you will almost certainly have shopped around for the best deal and so it doesnt matter to you if the company is based 1, 100 or 1000 miles away - you will only be interested in which country the servers themselves are in if anything at all. This only leaves the small volume of "want to support local company" types which tend to be low volume. The one shortage we find as .Net web developers is of decent windows based hosting which has things such as high security level setting on .Net rather than the common medium or full text indexing and change notification on SQL server, ability to change the handlers on IIS etc. The issue with all of these is that they increase the maintainance and resources required to keep a fast and stable service. You would need to investigate if this is simply because the sums dont add up in terms of costs -v- price or if everyone assumes that the status quo must be correct.