Running a hosting company for quite a few years now, I know what to host and what not to host. And, I guess i can tell most of the times if a site is a legitimate site, or a money making site, or an out right scamming site just by having a look at it.

When you run a hosting company that is fully automated, where visitors come by themselves, purchase hosting on your site, make the payment and the account gets activated, and they start using it, you dont have any work to do there. And you have plenty of time. You could do well to utilize this time to review the various sites that are hosted on your servers. What they have in the front end and what they have behind the scenes.

Most of the times, the datacentre, or the ISP will send you alerts if there are any malicious activities going on on any of the sites on your server, and all you need to do would be to suspend the hosting and the domain. But at times, somethings might go terribly wrong that the ISPs take your server offline by detatching the IP before they approach you. So it is always better to monitor the server yourself, or employ someone who would be good at it.

List of contents that shouldn’t be on your servers.

1. Porn.

2. Unrecognized software sales

3. Un Conformed or unregistered Shopping Sites.

4. Pages that look like any bank, payment gateway, or pages that collect personal information of any sort.

5. Sites that send out a lot of email.

Why?

Contd…….

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.

Now that the hardware part is over, you need software to run the machine. The first thing that you will ever install in a PC is a software called an Operating System. When it comes to an operating system, you have a very wide range to choose from. It is always recommended to take the wisest decision while choosing the platform you work on. The choices that you have:

1. Genuine Windows Vista or XP

2. Pirated Windows Vista or XP downloadable from thepiratebay.org or demonoid.com

3. A suitable Linux Distro like ubuntu, fedora, opensuse, mandriva etc.

4. Solaris

5. Unix or Unix Like OS such as BSD.