Looking for Investors for a Hosting Provider

[Pokey]

About the hosting provider​

Heylo! As the title suggests, I'm looking for an investor/partner for making a hosting company, you may ask what difference do I make to what seems like infinite hosting prodivers out there, well first off, the pricing, I don't believe in the offer cheapest prices, I have an plan on making my customers money worth, for there server, and there mental health, for me the most important thing is the time of customers. That's not all however, I have a plan on also, providing extra services, to our customers, It'll be like a one stop shop, while yes, there are some companies out there doing it already, I believe it can be improved and be more useful to our customers More details planned. If you've made it so far, thanks for sticking with me. Now, the last but not least, I'd like to not limit ourselves to just those features, but also go on to making it worth for bigger servers, worth the transfer to our service ease of access, or even features limited to us. More can be explained in private messages

Type of partner/investor​

I'm looking for a partner/investor, who has the financial means, and also a bit of passion and maybe some more help for this hosting, for me working with someone who has similar interests as me, is awesome and helps a lot, and someone who takes criticism/gives constructive criticism is always awesome.

Summary​

In all, making a hosting company that looks at hosting in a way no other company has yet/not well-made, and expand in that idea, looking for a partner who is interested and willing to support with financial sides.

My skills​

• Seen in and outs of hosting companies
• Knowledge on development/Life of being a minecraft server owner
• Decent experience in Linux, and Java

Sorry, if it's a bit long, tried to keep it short.

 

[Orochimaru]

Just to clarify, you cannot ask for investors without providing something like ownership*

 

[JasmeowTheCat]

About the hosting provider​

Heylo! As the title suggests, I'm looking for an investor/partner for making a hosting company, you may ask what difference do I make to what seems like infinite hosting prodivers out there, well first off, the pricing, I don't believe in the offer cheapest prices, I have an plan on making my customers money worth, for there server, and there mental health, for me the most important thing is the time of customers. That's not all however, I have a plan on also, providing extra services, to our customers, It'll be like a one stop shop, while yes, there are some companies out there doing it already, I believe it can be improved and be more useful to our customers More details planned. If you've made it so far, thanks for sticking with me. Now, the last but not least, I'd like to not limit ourselves to just those features, but also go on to making it worth for bigger servers, worth the transfer to our service ease of access, or even features limited to us. More can be explained in private messages

Type of partner/investor​

I'm looking for a partner/investor, who has the financial means, and also a bit of passion and maybe some more help for this hosting, for me working with someone who has similar interests as me, is awesome and helps a lot, and someone who takes criticism/gives constructive criticism is always awesome.

Summary​

In all, making a hosting company that looks at hosting in a way no other company has yet/not well-made, and expand in that idea, looking for a partner who is interested and willing to support with financial sides.

My skills​

• Seen in and outs of hosting companies
• Knowledge on development/Life of being a minecraft server owner
• Decent experience in Linux, and Java

Sorry, if it's a bit long, tried to keep it short.

Just gunna drop my copy pasta I have written many months ago...

Alright, there's a lot of pointers I am going to say which you might disagree with or be not strong on, but I do it to anyone who wants to start hosting companies as it lets them decide if it's a good idea after all.

Firstly, you might want to do this as a hobby and something in your free time. Now, I get this, no problems, but I am concerned that you will become another Summer Hoax. A Summer Hoax is when a hosting company starts up, gets clients, you then abandon the idea, then yeet out, and then completely ruins your name and reputation on your company. I would seriously be very careful before you continue. I am being serious. I have watched many people start up hosting companies, yeet, and they get attacked by their clients. I have done this for a long time.

Secondly, you are going to be handling client data, which is extremely data sensitive. You are going to be having clients addresses, names, and all other data. I don't know what laws protect you, but in the UK we have GDPR, and if you have UK clients, and you get a request for data retrieval, deletion or such else, you will need to deal with it in 28 days or the ICO will go for you and the client can sue you thousands. (Realistically.)

Next, you need a registered company to present yourself well. If you aren't going to do this, not everyone needs to be registered, and you don't need to be legally, but will really help you with your reputation and people respecting your brand. It's your choice whether you do this, and you might not even be old enough to be 18 or 21 to even do this.

Then, you have the market. The hosting market is so saturated, you need something to stand out from all the rest. If you cannot stand out from all the rest, good luck getting any clients. You need to bring something new to the table and not copying other hosting companies. Without this, no one will use you as a hosting, as people for example can go to my hosting for like 10 cents for a server lol.

Also, finances. What's your budget? How are you getting your income? If you don't have a reliable source of income, nothing is going to happen. You need at least a good few hundred to get started, and reliably keep yourself afloat while you configure and grow. You aren't going to get services cheap, such as theme designers for your website being a good 200 ish, possibly less if they are nice. You then have my costs, WHMCS's license, theme purchase, addons and plugins for the panel probably, and other expenses... the actual system to host them on.

Finally, you need a dedicated server or VPS to run these bots and other hosting needs. Without this, you can't host anything! You are going to need this from a good hosting provider and reliable, then you need to think of locations if you want to expand and need good specifications also on the actual server such as Intel and AMD CPU's, good memory, storage, etc etc.

There is so many other points as well, including support, staff members, Discord and other social medias, payments and salaries, CEO and management documents, and a ton more. I used to run my own hosting company for 2 years boss, a lot of good hard work...

If you cannot answer any of these reliably, STOP NOW. This is to save you money, clients problems and anything else in the future.

 

[Pokey]

Just gunna drop my copy pasta I have written many months ago...

Alright, there's a lot of pointers I am going to say which you might disagree with or be not strong on, but I do it to anyone who wants to start hosting companies as it lets them decide if it's a good idea after all.

Firstly, you might want to do this as a hobby and something in your free time. Now, I get this, no problems, but I am concerned that you will become another Summer Hoax. A Summer Hoax is when a hosting company starts up, gets clients, you then abandon the idea, then yeet out, and then completely ruins your name and reputation on your company. I would seriously be very careful before you continue. I am being serious. I have watched many people start up hosting companies, yeet, and they get attacked by their clients. I have done this for a long time.

Secondly, you are going to be handling client data, which is extremely data sensitive. You are going to be having clients addresses, names, and all other data. I don't know what laws protect you, but in the UK we have GDPR, and if you have UK clients, and you get a request for data retrieval, deletion or such else, you will need to deal with it in 28 days or the ICO will go for you and the client can sue you thousands. (Realistically.)

Next, you need a registered company to present yourself well. If you aren't going to do this, not everyone needs to be registered, and you don't need to be legally, but will really help you with your reputation and people respecting your brand. It's your choice whether you do this, and you might not even be old enough to be 18 or 21 to even do this.

Then, you have the market. The hosting market is so saturated, you need something to stand out from all the rest. If you cannot stand out from all the rest, good luck getting any clients. You need to bring something new to the table and not copying other hosting companies. Without this, no one will use you as a hosting, as people for example can go to my hosting for like 10 cents for a server lol.

Also, finances. What's your budget? How are you getting your income? If you don't have a reliable source of income, nothing is going to happen. You need at least a good few hundred to get started, and reliably keep yourself afloat while you configure and grow. You aren't going to get services cheap, such as theme designers for your website being a good 200 ish, possibly less if they are nice. You then have my costs, WHMCS's license, theme purchase, addons and plugins for the panel probably, and other expenses... the actual system to host them on.

Finally, you need a dedicated server or VPS to run these bots and other hosting needs. Without this, you can't host anything! You are going to need this from a good hosting provider and reliable, then you need to think of locations if you want to expand and need good specifications also on the actual server such as Intel and AMD CPU's, good memory, storage, etc etc.

There is so many other points as well, including support, staff members, Discord and other social medias, payments and salaries, CEO and management documents, and a ton more. I used to run my own hosting company for 2 years boss, a lot of good hard work...

If you cannot answer any of these reliably, STOP NOW. This is to save you money, clients problems and anything else in the future.

Yeah, pretty sure everyone has seen that summary by now, also who runs there hosting company on a VPS? Like maybe AWS Cloud but even that's a stretch

Post automatically merged: Jan 13, 2023

Just to clarify, you cannot ask for investors without providing something like ownership*

Yeah ik

Post automatically merged: Jan 13, 2023

Just gunna drop my copy pasta I have written many months ago...

Alright, there's a lot of pointers I am going to say which you might disagree with or be not strong on, but I do it to anyone who wants to start hosting companies as it lets them decide if it's a good idea after all.

Firstly, you might want to do this as a hobby and something in your free time. Now, I get this, no problems, but I am concerned that you will become another Summer Hoax. A Summer Hoax is when a hosting company starts up, gets clients, you then abandon the idea, then yeet out, and then completely ruins your name and reputation on your company. I would seriously be very careful before you continue. I am being serious. I have watched many people start up hosting companies, yeet, and they get attacked by their clients. I have done this for a long time.

Secondly, you are going to be handling client data, which is extremely data sensitive. You are going to be having clients addresses, names, and all other data. I don't know what laws protect you, but in the UK we have GDPR, and if you have UK clients, and you get a request for data retrieval, deletion or such else, you will need to deal with it in 28 days or the ICO will go for you and the client can sue you thousands. (Realistically.)

Next, you need a registered company to present yourself well. If you aren't going to do this, not everyone needs to be registered, and you don't need to be legally, but will really help you with your reputation and people respecting your brand. It's your choice whether you do this, and you might not even be old enough to be 18 or 21 to even do this.

Then, you have the market. The hosting market is so saturated, you need something to stand out from all the rest. If you cannot stand out from all the rest, good luck getting any clients. You need to bring something new to the table and not copying other hosting companies. Without this, no one will use you as a hosting, as people for example can go to my hosting for like 10 cents for a server lol.

Also, finances. What's your budget? How are you getting your income? If you don't have a reliable source of income, nothing is going to happen. You need at least a good few hundred to get started, and reliably keep yourself afloat while you configure and grow. You aren't going to get services cheap, such as theme designers for your website being a good 200 ish, possibly less if they are nice. You then have my costs, WHMCS's license, theme purchase, addons and plugins for the panel probably, and other expenses... the actual system to host them on.

Finally, you need a dedicated server or VPS to run these bots and other hosting needs. Without this, you can't host anything! You are going to need this from a good hosting provider and reliable, then you need to think of locations if you want to expand and need good specifications also on the actual server such as Intel and AMD CPU's, good memory, storage, etc etc.

There is so many other points as well, including support, staff members, Discord and other social medias, payments and salaries, CEO and management documents, and a ton more. I used to run my own hosting company for 2 years boss, a lot of good hard work...

If you cannot answer any of these reliably, STOP NOW. This is to save you money, clients problems and anything else in the future.

Just saw this, you don't technically need to be 18/21 to make a registered company, you'd just need someone to sign contracts for you in your LLC , and, as per the hobby, all businesses start somewhere.

 

[roderickcnelson]

Sometimes finding investors is not so easy. And in matters related to finances, you need to be extremely careful on both sides. I used to delegate all financial issues to this source https://astra-trust.com/ For me, this is the key to successful and reliable financial support.

 

[Pokey]

There's actually a member in this community pretty prominently asking every question under the sun about hosting and using a VPS to provide gameservers to his clients.

JasmeowTheCat can probably vouch that this is happening currently and she's probably seen quite a few others too.

Geez lol, I mean unless you get some insane deal on a VPS i wouldn't personally suggest it, AWS/Azure/Etc. I'd understand though, but a bit unnecessary.

 

[Pokey]

Hosting is very cutthroat on the pricing too. I doubt you'd be able to provide the price people have come to expect via AWS/Azure despite them being reliable services otherwise.

That is its downside, however, it has its upside of canceling it, charging by hour maybe make prices cheaper by even maybe if you went that far, auto turning on/off player servers, and you could probably charge a little bit of a premium for the SLA agreement's uptime being higher than most hosts.

Post automatically merged: Jan 17, 2023

Though, personally for hosting I'd not use it unless some odd case that I'm seeing.