Home Computer Business Idea: Start a Reseller Hosting and Web Maintenance Business

This creates a niche for creating a business that maintains websites and takes responsibility for choosing the hosting platform. Often this is another service area that a web-design business can offer customers. Or it can also be bundles with other media maintenance such a Facebook, Twitter, or a blog. As a web-hosting company you are expected to provide the following services.

• Shared or dedicated web-hosting services
• Corporate email
• Domain registration services
• Continued uptime

What you need to know about this business

• The estimated startup costs are between $250 and $400.
• The estimated first-year revenue is between $20,000 and $35,000.
• Reseller hosting fee depends on the size of the website. In any case you should set your margins so that you bill your customer is calculated based on what your costs associated with their web-site are.
• Attracting and setting up new customers’ websites is going to be most time consuming aspect of the business.
• As a reseller you can actually sign a monthly or annual contract with a hosting company for a little as $50 a month. Everything you need to get started is included in the monthly fee.

How to market this business

• Encourage referrals from happy customers
• Create your own website
• Place ad on Internet directories
• Ads in local newspaper
• Fliers and community bulletin boards

Home business equipment required

• PC, printer and Internet access
• Your own website
• Complete office and phone

Target Market

• Small business looking to expand their market
• Freelance Professionals
• Artists