Jaiem — Sun, 07 Oct 2001 22:49:17 +0000

A web designer should either also offer the hosting capability. Resale or sales agent are two cost effective ways.

If they don't offer the service they should have a relationship with a host that they can direct thier customers to.

Either way, it's hard to be a web design and not have any connection to hosting.

Thanks

claytons — Sat, 06 Oct 2001 10:40:03 +0000

Thanks for the replies, our hosting offers resellers a great reseller package and what I was thinking is just what Mark had to say.

If web masters and or web designers offered hosting as part of their package they could build quite a substancial income and have access to more clients prospective clients through referrals.

What are your thoughts on this idea?

Thanks Again.

mairving — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 14:08:05 +0000

You can't make money hosting sites unless you host a lot of them. To me the ideal situation is to mostly just host the sites that you design. Charge them a monthly maintenance fee to keep their site updated. So instead of getting $6/mo for hosting, you get $25-50/mo for not that much more work. I have a guy that I charge $150/mo. I am supposed to give him 8 hrs a month but it is usually less than that, his choice not mine.

Jaiem — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:26:41 +0000

The domain market is very tough. So is the hosting market. Mucho competition.

If you have good plans and decent prices you might be able to get a decent cashflow. But to get a good customer base takes time and effort. It's not something for someone with "when I have time to work on it" approach.

pLoKeNgOp — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 06:26:43 +0000

hmm... if you're talking about reselling domains, it all depends on the price. The name of the domain would really make the price go up.