Tarak from Mumbai

Hi Guys,

My first post actually should be here Just saw this thread.

From Mumbai, was working for different IT companies earlier as Project Lead, now since last 8 years run my Web Hosting company.

Earlier use to invest on basis on magazines, broker and equitymaster.com. Lost a lot in Marksan Pharma, Varun Industries and couple of other cheap stocks however gain handsomely in lot of other good stocks. My capital have increased over a time however I am like a lost traveller, asking 'so call experts' for destination at every step.

I want to change this and wish to take command, I hope in this journey technical analysis will help me

Money can be earned easily however growth of this money atleast @18% to @25% is essential to survive at latter age, stock market is one of the vehicle to achieve this. Wish me luck

 

Shabbir, yes very competitive and in last 3 years for small companies, WH business is very tough.

Fortunately we have a niche market (more of managed dedicated servers, load balancing solutions and custom server configuration rather than shared/reseller hosting)

Talk to you soon

 

Hi Shabbir,

Thats a nice article with links to popular hosting cos.

Actually its feasible to have cheap pricing and match those big hosts in pricing even now, if you have your own servers at right datacenters. The only challenge is volume and 24x7 customer support.

With right target audience and patience you can achieve the same, (for us strating out in year 2002 was possible and quiet easy - almost 20-25 signups per day) - Later with good volume too we were finding margins not enough, a loooot of hard work on customer satisfaction (I hate hard work ) and frankly amount of time/work ratio to reward was just not enough. We eventually shifted to higher margin products like dedicated servers, load balancing setup and any custom config that most of the hosting provider dont provide - as they are not technically capable or just dont want to involve themselves in complex server setups.

As mentioned earlier, we were fortunate to have/develop niche market - better to handle 50 corporate customers with good margin rather than handling 10,000 shared/reseller hosting clients.

But yes as of now year 2012 - with no professional contacts and to start from gound zero is very difficult for WH business.

 

Guys,

Now you have brought this point of web hosting, my 2 cents worth

Have a look at Amazon's AWS. Now, you can host your sites or I would say , you can acquire infrastructure of any size in less than 10 minutes. You can release the instance whenever you want, so no depreciation etc. Amazing concept, very secured, reliable.

BTW, that's cloud computing!

cheers,
Keshav

 

Two techies at discussion and I will just welcome the new member.