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raymor · 10-04-2011, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by kacy

When just starting out, most people to do not have the means to purchase hardware, networking equipment, and bandwidth in bulk. Not to mention marketing dollars on top of that. Especially when they are not even certain they can be competitive and profitable in the market place.

Also to hire a QUALIFIED sysadmin, which they can do either before or after their systems get rooted. Hosting is like a lot of things - it looks like a very attractive, high margin business until you actually do it in the real world, where Murphy's law applies.

We already HAVE a cabinet with a good price on bandwidth, a $2000 IP KVM, switches, etc. for Clonebox. I already have fourteen years of server admin experience, but you don't see us advertising hosting - even though we already HAVE the equipment and expertise. We also already have experience with hosting customers who reach up huge bills and then don't pay and thee other negatives of hosting, so you don't see that service offered on our site.

We actually DO host a few select people whom we know. Only if we already know that someone will pay their bills on time, not send spam, not attract DMCA or other negative attention, etc. does it makes sense to us to host them. So even though we already have the infrastructure and the right staff, ours is invitation only because public hosting is a difficult business.