Starting a hosting company
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PebbleHost
High performance, consistent uptime and fast support. Minecraft hosting that just works.
Hopefully you are near the age of 18. You need to be 18+ with a paypal account to get off the ground and be successful. Know that the billing system you should use is WHMCS, it is the best out there and everyone uses it. As for the actual hosting, for a small company, you should use resellers such as inmotion hosting or if you can afford an unlimited space reseller go with that. For minecraft hosting, you will need dedicated machines with pretty good specs. The panel you should use is multicraft or if you want a free panel then use pterodactyl panel.
WHMCS: https://www.whmcs.com/
unlimited space reseller: https://www.greengeeks.com/reseller-hosting/
Unlimited cPanel accounts but limited space reseller: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/
MultiCraft: https://www.multicraft.org/
Dino Panel(pterodactyl panel): https://pterodactyl.io/
WHMCS: https://www.whmcs.com/
unlimited space reseller: https://www.greengeeks.com/reseller-hosting/
Unlimited cPanel accounts but limited space reseller: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/
MultiCraft: https://www.multicraft.org/
Dino Panel(pterodactyl panel): https://pterodactyl.io/
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Honestly your best option would be to find a small niche and stick to it. It'll really help you gain clients.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
You should start small and buy a few dedicated servers from a company like DigitalOcean, play around with the linux distro of your choice and follow guides on how to install pterodactyl panel. Once you have mastered the basics of linux and have learned how to control a few servers on multiple nodes, you can start looking into creating a business.
Digital ocean provides no ddos protection, that is a game server client's nightmare.
For SysAdmin-related things, crash reports and debugging you'll learn much more hands on. There are just too many problems you can come across and too many fixes to know them all by heart. Experimenting, failing (preferably not on a production environment) and practicing being a part of the process. So I highly suggest you start up by the very beginning, by learning how to deploy virtual machines and installing operating systems until you think you master the process and understand every step of what you are doing, that's all very important, when you learn something new, try to understand absolutely everything that new concept does, otherwise you might end up with unwanted side effects and other tedious errors you shouldn't get stuck on.
I'm just suggesting that he play around with servers on digital ocean. I use digital ocean for my server, but use a very advanced custom load balancer that can redirect traffic between servers.
As someone who has worked on a lot of projects, I would honestly just recommend not getting into this business. It's over saturated, the profit margins have been cut so razor thin by competition, and the start up costs are huge. I don't mean to dissuade you from trying something you're passionate about but the odds that you'll ever turn a profit are probably 1%.
By all means go for it if it's your passion but it's one of those things where there's a new hosting company popping up every 5 minutes.
By all means go for it if it's your passion but it's one of those things where there's a new hosting company popping up every 5 minutes.
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