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That isn't how that works. College takes more time than high school does. Nobody is going to hold your hand or tell you what you need to do. You need to do everything yourself outside of class hours. For every credit hour, you should spend 2 hours a week reviewing the content for the week.
You should know that education is one of the most important things.
I think it's great that you are so young and interested in these things (I'm young too).
But please take my advice seriously and only concentrate on school. After you finished your school you can do what you what but I think that it is not such a good idea to run a profitable company when you are still in college.
While I don't think it's a good idea for @dominicl to get back into business right now, I do have to point out that school and education are not the same thing. "Going to school" is not the only way to educate yourself, and often actually a worse method than self-education.
Hi,
I was considering getting a master reseller account (most reseller accounts now are master reseller) so that I could sell reseller accounts myself. I have also considered getting a VPS with cPanel but I'm not sure which way I'm going to go at the moment. 24/7 end user support is available with reseller accounts, but generally not VPS.
I've already got one currently. I don't want to name at the moment.
Regards,
Dominic
@DamienSB - by college he means what Americans call high school.
Hold yourself to that, I mean it. Here's why...
VPS and dedicated customers are often the type to know what they are doing. Not always, of course, but as a reseller you can't reach the ones that don't know what they're doing because you can't post your offers on LEB. There aren't enough on LET that will be interested, I promise. WHT is your new friend, and it's beyond the point of saturated.
Shared hosting is your best bet and you will need to develop relationships and work with people because you could post on WHT that you'll pay people $15 to sign up and you still won't get an order for shared hosting.
Maybe it won't play out that way, but if it does, don't move forward until you have sustainable income to support it.
I understand this - and college is local to me by the way (about a 15 minute drive, max, in traffic!). However, if I have others on board this venture (as I've already had PM's..) then this can work.
Thanks for the input joepie
Get a VPS, trust me. A master reseller account is a bad idea.
As for the support, do it yourself. There won't be much of it.
In that case, you still won't have enough time for both. If you can't do it full time; don't do it.
I can't post on WHT as I am banned there. The WHT mods made a mistake (harsh but true), and they won't admit to it, so I've left it at that with them. They won't budge, at all. I don't want to explain the reason for the ban now as it's a long story - but they are wrong but won't admit to it.
Understood and I won't move forward until I have a sustainable income to support the move :-)
What he said.
Yep!
Certainly taken on board, thank you :-) I will consider that, as there won't be much support to be honest.
In that case, you still won't have enough time for both. If you can't do it full time; don't do it.
If there are other people on the team, then I don't think this is an issue. Others that I know have jobs and hosting companies, but have others to assist. Lots of LEB providers that I know of have jobs, but have other staff.
True story: I graduated with people who can't read. I'm not worried about them finding out that I'm talking about them, for obvious reasons.
study and enjoy now . want to resell? welcome..
As above, I of course am going to study. I will be picking 1 or 2 people out of the guys who've contacted me to work alongside me and to take some of the "load" off, so I won't have as much to do.
Btw for the record @dominicl, I'm with @jhadley on this. This way you start cheap and it's YOUR product. Sure you won't run the server, but look at the rest of us. We're all resellers of something. Even if it's just the space we shove the rack in. You get to secure and optimize it, you get to make it your own flavor of product. Catalyst Host started on a burstnet VPS and if anyone asks me tomorrow if that's true I'm telling them that @jarland is a lying sack of crap.
@jarland -
I will certainly be taking yours and James' comments on board and will definitely look into getting a VPS with cPanel. I've had lots of cPanel VPS's in the past - just need to find a provider that provides services that "just work".
For something that 'just works', consider something managed by the provider, and possibly Plesk instead of cPanel. Plesk gives similar functionality with fewer things that can go wrong.
If you want a quote, just let me know.
Hello,
Will email you.
Regards,
Dominic
I don't know about in 2013 but just FYI, we used Plesk in 2011 and my version of your statement would be "More things can go wrong and less you can do to fix them."
I've never used Plesk but have used cPanel loads of times.
@jhadley
Why try and make accounting seem hard? I'm registered self employed and a simple excel spreadsheet works just fine! Keep your receipts, input everything you buy/pay for .. It's not rocket science.
Excel works fine, however, Sage/Quickbooks makes things easier
Plesk 11 is decent.
Just recommending a best practice. I'll openly admit that I use FreeAgent myself.
@jarland Also considering many shared clients demand cPanel and cPanel's support is top notch.
We look forward to buying you out in a few months
Yea cpanel could do all of his work for him :P
Sure, I do wish you the best. If you need any advice, guidance, etc. hit me up, you have me on Skype. I would hate to see you fail again (couldn't find a nice way to say it ;p). :-)
Hi,
I agree, cPanel's support is fantastic (although a little slow at times).
Will certainly do so I won't create threads after 5 minutes either.
They could. Haha
Certainly do have you on Skype Thx.
Don't hold your hopes up high!
So what exactly makes your VMs premium?