The money, unfortulately, is in the client’s pockets, and to bring it legally into your pockets, you need to do a little bit of work. Provide service in such a way that no one would have provided before.

First, you need a cool brand name. wehostlinweb is not a cool name at all. Hostgator is a cool name, and I thought, indyahozting is a cool name, and thats why I registered the domain name. Before that I thought webaholics was a cool name, but couldnt get a .com name for that, so I just let it be and now its a blog.

Secondly, you need to promote it. During the initial stages, you need to go with adwords. For that you need to have a decent budget. Without regualr ads, any money that you spend on advertising will completely be wasted, except for a few clients that you may get.

Thirdly, build as many one way links as possible to your site. Turn to blogs, host blogs in your server, offer them a few free months, get friendly with them, and ask them to write about you. Or ask them to do a paid review. Target blogs with good readership. Take over a few of those blogs and ask them to write reviews for you repeatedly, say maybe once a week, so that you get good traffic from their sites.

Then, launch good referal programs. Working with affiliate links is one way, but to get to know clients personally, employ a relationship manager, and getting referals directly and complementing the refferers directly with cash or services would be a better option.

Finally, turn to the forums. There are loads and loads of active forums on web hosting and other related hisam stuff. Get someone who could constantly post things and be active on your company’s behalf there, with your website url on the footer of every message that he posts. If your name is cool enough, and if your site looks good and has got cool packges, you will get business from it.

And there is your money.

I had named my company long before it was started, as webaholics. And in 2005, when I looked for the domain name, I found that webaholics.com was taken, and with webaholics.in not public yet, I had to settle for webaholics.co.in. And this is that domain.

I was running a web hosting site on this domain name. When I started all I had was a reseller account taken from datapacket.net, which eventually got blocked for spamming. One of my clients spammed their servers off it seems, and the one who spammed got his money back from me, and I learnt the lesson and took my first server.

With the servers I was able to offer Windows Reseller Accounts with Helm control panel, and slowly the sales boosted, and i started acquiring more and more servers, and learned a lot of thing myself, such as Plesk is the best hosting control panel for windows and Cpanel is the best for linux, and that Red Hat is best for servers while ubuntu is best for PCs. This is because Red Hat’s support is cheaper than ubuntu’s

Later I went on to start a website called indyahozting, which Im still running, and this domain was pointed to indyahozting for 3 years, driving all traffic that comes to this to indyahozting.com.

Very recently I realized that this is a PR3 domain name, and I could make it into a blog, and spread the word out about web hosting, and help people who are in peril with their servers, completely free of charge.

In this blog, god willing, Im hoping to write about all the business aspects of running a hosting company, and the technical and support side aspects will be written about at hostshub.com. Blogging was completely gothic art to me when I started. I didn’t understand a thing. But now I guess Im good enough at doing it.