An honest assessment before you commit.
WHAT THE BUSINESS ACTUALLY IS
You buy capacity wholesale and sell it retail, and you provide the support.
The margin on hosting alone is thin. The money is in what surrounds it.
WHO SUCCEEDS AT IT
Web designers and developers, adding hosting to work they already do Agencies wanting to control the environment their sites run on People with an existing customer base in another business People willing to answer support requests reliably for years
WHO DOES NOT
Anyone expecting passive income. Hosting is a support business with servers attached. Anyone unwilling to be reachable Anyone competing purely on price
THE HONEST ECONOMICS
Selling a small hosting plan at a low monthly price produces very little per customer.
Twenty customers at that price is not a business. Two hundred might be, and supporting two hundred is real work.
WHERE THE MARGIN ACTUALLY IS
Domains, site builds, maintenance retainers, migrations, email setup, and the fact that a hosting customer is a customer for everything else.
Hosting is the relationship, not the revenue.
THE QUESTION TO ANSWER
Will you still be answering support tickets in three years?
