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Run Your Own Shared Hosting Business

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Ever wonder why the hosting space is so competitive?

Well the thing is – it’s very simple to get started, especially with VPS hosting.

You can buy a VPS from slicehost or some other VPS retailer, get cpanel and break it into segments for your customers. (This can all basically be done for you)

From there all you do is setup a website where you’re going to sell hosting, and promote it online. Most people oversell their VPS/Dedicated servers offering shared hosting because most people that buy the hosting don’t use it much.

If a customer uses too much data they usually get kicked off. This is different with companies such as Hostgator as they can take a few users using tons of bandwidth for their sites because they’re so large, but big consumers will still get kicked from there.

Unlimited in the shared hosting world is never really “unlimited” they just say that to make you feel better and the limits are actually in the TOS for the most part.

So if you want to dive right in – that’s pretty much all you need to do – and most of the shared hosting biz is run around advertising now – so you’ll want someone who can really market the crap out of your website. This is where the real cost comes in – marketing.

Don’t expect to make much without heavy advertising.

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Are You Bored? Online Entertainment – How To Waste Time Onine

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

There’s a lot of things I do when I feel like wasting some time online.

Wikipedia

Some people might not realize it – but you can go from article to article and get consumed with Wikipedia quite easily. Before you know it hours have passed.

Cheezburger type sites

These sites are just funny to look at, though I usually get bored after about 20 minutes of looking at these.

Youtube

Everyone knows youtube – it can be a huge time waster, even worse than TV at times.

Netflix

Of course, then comes Netflix, where you can watch TV and movies online. That’s an easy couple hours down the drain.

Video Games

Now, this depends on if you have a powerful PC or not to play the “top of the line” games or if you just want to play flash games and the like. There’s more and more graphically advanced browser based games coming out these days as well. Anyway, you can spend quite some time playing these, especially if they’re MMORPG games, some people spend entire DAYS playing these.

Hulu or Hulu Plus

Watch TV shows and movies on Hulu for free or with your Hulu Plus subscription.

Online Chat

If all else fails, I’m sure people can keep you company while you’re bored on one of the many IRC chat channels. Either that or troll around image boards and forums.

My “last stop” is places like reddit, facebook, and others when I absolutely can’t find anything else to do.

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What is NNTP?

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Usenet needs a protocol to work through, just like the modern internet primarily relies on http. Usenet news articles flow through this protocol to other news servers and end users.

The protocol hasn’t changed since 1986. Originally, the protocol was based on UUCP.

If you’re more interested in what Usenet can do for you, check out my guide to binaries.

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Want to Start a Website?

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

So, you want to start a website?

The easiest way to start one is to head on over to blogger, hubpages, or any of the other web 2.0 properties. Why? Well it’s a good starting point before you get into all the craziness with hosting, domains, and setting up php applications on your server.

When you write something on hubpages or blogger, you have a good chance of getting indexed by Google if it’s a decent topic. You don’t need much as far as promotion. When you start a brand new website from scratch on an unknown domain, Google isn’t going to pay attention to your site unless you get some links to it somehow. So, start with web 2.0 and familiarize yourself with html code a little before jumping head first into the world of websites.

So you think you’re ready?

First, you need hosting. Get a shared hosting plan from HostGator. Next you need a domain. Buy one from internet.bs. Why internet.bs? Well GoDaddy, the most known, has tons of upsells and over charges. Go with them if you want, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Anyway, hostgator will give you some nameservers, and you’ll need to point your domain to those servers on internet.bs. That’s a pretty simple task, along with adding your domain into cPanel. Pretty soon the DNS should propagate and you should see a default page on your domain.

From there you should be able to get FTP access by typing in the domain and FTP Port along with your username and password. Once you’re there, you can follow the instructions for wordpress or whatever you’re installing.

Some will need you to setup a mysql database, which is pretty easy through cPanel. Anyway, a lot of this has been automated with most of the php softawre today, so you just input the data as you go along with the web based installer.

Then you’re ready. Ready for what? Ready to customize your site and add content. This will require photoshop skills or you’ll need to hire someone. Along with that, you’ll need links to point to your site so Google will even pick up on what you wrote.

Sound easy? Well that’s why I told you to start with web 2.0 sites first. No matter what, I can’t explain the entire process to you because I don’t know what software you’re installing on the host, or maybe you decided to just upload HTML files to the site with FTP?

To be continued…

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