How to Start a Web Hosting Company in Under 10 Minutes

what is going on you guys before we jump into the video one quick reminder the full web hosting course is still available for pre-order it goes live january 1st so if you haven't purchased that yet be sure to click the link down in the description grab that now because it's going to go up in price after january 1st let's talk really quickly about what it takes to start a web hosting company i'll give you a 30 second synopsis on what this is because i've got lots of other videos on my channel talking about that in fact i've got a whole playlist talking about how to do this completely for free and i'll link that up here and also in the description below but essentially what i do is it's a way that i earn passive income i i rent a server from a company i host a bunch of different websites on that for clients and then i charge those clients for a monthly hosting fee the great thing is i can put as many websites on a single server as i want i have a low monthly rent fee which is typically around 35ish or so but right now on my server i've got 80 clients all of them are paying anywhere from 15 all the way up to 75 dollars i think i have some clients out so that's what makes this so awesome there's a super low barrier to entry uh the the cost is minimal and it can make thousands of dollars per month just hosting websites i mean you essentially become the the godaddy or the bluehost or the hostgator for yourself and you cut out the middleman but you get to keep the profits for yourself so it's really really lucrative i think it's a great deal i've been doing this for years and here on youtube i teach people how to do the exact same thing that i'm doing so with all that being said if if you're kind of new to this you're not really sure what it all and like kind of involves and entails again go check out that uh that free playlist that i have here on youtube it'll walk you through step by step how to do a lot of this but i'm going to show you how to set this up and do this really quick in under 10 minutes okay so to get started you want to click the link down in the description uh which i'll leave right here it's bryce jmathson.com forward slash web hosting that's going to take you to this website and the first thing we want to do is we want to click on reseller web hosting because that's what we're going to be doing we're going to be reselling web hosting using this company so click here and then underneath that you're going to have all of the different plans now obviously the more you pay the more you can get but starting out you don't really need to pay for all of that so what i did when i started out was i used the kickstart plan and i you know they've actually renamed a lot of these so the kickstart plan was i think it was the the bronze package back back when i was just starting to do this it's essentially the same thing so the the differences between these uh the different plans is is the number of uh of storage so the amount of storage that you get in gigabytes and also the bandwidth which is the transfer and if you click over here you can also see there's additional stuff most of the time you don't really need that the other thing that that varies is the amount of cpanel accounts the amount of websites that you can host on an individual server so for example the kickstart plan you may only be able to host 20 websites but if you're on the scale plan you can host all the way up to 80 or whatever it is the reason that we're using this company a2 hosting is because they offer good speeds great customer service at a reasonable price um i can't stand bluehost or hostgator or any of these other companies they're slow they're bloated they're i don't know they're just they're not very good so this is the company that we're going to use so once you've decided what plan you want and you you can click here and say compare plans so so you can drill down and see the different plans and you can see here that the kickstart plan allows you to have 20 accounts the scale plan allows you to have 75 accounts and obviously the ones in between will give you you know varying amounts but the nice thing is you can start with the kickstarter plan it's really cheap and then you can scale up you can increase your server as you grow so this is why i said it's such a great business model because you can start small you don't have to pay a ton of money up front if you don't want to you can just get started really cheap and then scale up your server as you have need so let's go ahead and just say get kickstart at this point it's going to ask you for a domain if you don't already have a domain to kind of run your hosting company uh you can register a new name here i i personally like namecheap i just think they're a better company most of the time they're cheaper so i'll leave a link down in the description right there where you can purchase the domain if you want but most of the time that's what i recommend is buy it through namecheap and then we're going to use it with a2 hosting or you can use an existing domain that you already have in this case i'm going to assume that you've bought a domain through namecheap or some other company and so we'll just say i'll use my existing domain uh i'm just going to say brycewebhosting.com i don't actually own this domain but it's fine for the purposes of our demo it'll be fine so we'll say that and say use it should come and say great that we can use that now the one thing you'll notice is whoa you look at this price and you're like holy cow i thought it was 18.99 that's the only downside is they give you a discount if you buy everything upfront in bulk it's okay if you don't want to spend 700 i don't blame you either when i was starting out doing this i didn't have this much money to spend and i also wasn't super committed i didn't know if there was something that i for sure wanted to do so if you click here you can see uh you get that 18.99 a month rate for 36 months if you buy it all up front again i i realize most people don't have that much money it's okay you can click here and if you want you can just get the one month price but of course you don't get the discount so maybe if you want you can get like the six month price it'll be a little bit cheaper if you choose a 12 month price it'll be a little bit cheaper i really wish they wouldn't do this but even having saying that i still think they're a really good company so if you don't have a lot of money you don't want to spend a ton on this or you're not really sure if this is like something that you absolutely want to do just start out with the one month plan it's okay and then you can move on from there as we move down just ignore this mostly you don't need the turbo the other thing is we don't need a dedicated ip address don't pay for that either just use the free ssl which is more than fine for the majority of your clients the last thing we want to do is we want to choose where our server is going to be located so we can either choose michigan arizona amsterdam or singapore my my server is actually located in michigan because i have a lot of clients on the east coast so i want my server to be located as close geographically to my clients as i can let's say you're in the united states and you're either on the west coast or you're in the central united states then maybe you would want to choose arizona because that's going to be closer to your clients the closer your server is to your clients the faster your websites are going to load you're not going to have as much latency if you don't live in the usa like i do you can also choose amsterdam or you can also choose singapore you know if those are closer to you geographically so choose your server for this i'll just say michigan and then we'll say continue then from here it's just going to give you a brief overview make sure everything looks good and then you'll say check out and then at this point i mean it's pretty self-explanatory go and put in your information credit card all that kind of stuff and then once you're done you'll scroll down here and say complete order okay once you have your server purchased and everything you're going to want to go into your dashboard and click on the link that says whm this is your web hosting manager and this is the screen that we're looking right at right now you can see we're in whm now within whm you can see a listing and i'm going to blur out a decent amount of this just to protect my client information but um you'll see all of these different websites that i host for different clients these are clients that i've had for a while they've just been trucking along and the great thing is that once i have their hosting most of the time they don't switch they stay with me for a while so let's just briefly go through and show you how to set up a new website of course you have to own the domain before you can do this but then you're going to click on create a new account and for this we're just going to say brycetest.com the username this is going to be the username to the cpanel you can change this to whatever you want bryce test is fine i'm going to put in a you know password i'll just say test one two three four and test one two three four please do something that's stronger than that but that's what i'm gonna do and say none at none.com choose a package i've got other videos talking about how to set up packages that's very basic i also explain it more in depth in my course if you're interested choose a package all of these are fine standard and we'll say create it's going to go through behind the scenes and do a bunch of different stuff it's going to run some scripts and different things it's almost going to look like it's not doing anything but i promise you behind the scenes it is so just be a little bit patient once it's done you can see here [Music] everything is good everything's ready to go you can click on go to cpanel and you have a website now for bricetest.com or whatever your domain is obviously you're going to have to set up name servers and a couple different things but at this point you're ready to hand it over to the client they can install wordpress they can upload files they want if they want to set up databases or custom scripts or you know what you name it they can do whatever you want and the great thing is you're just handling the hosting so we bought our server we set up a website for them you give them the username and the password to the cpanel account and then you let them go crazy you can have them do everything that they want and you just handle the hosting the great thing is that we're really just reselling this hosting when a2 hosting is the one that's really doing all the work for us they manage the server they manage the security they manage the updates that makes our life so much easier now one last pro tip is if you want to make even more money you can build the website for the client as well and i do that all the time a lot of times it's hard to get just the hosting contract unless you know someone who just doesn't have a website right now oftentimes i'll try and sell websites to people who either don't have a website at all and i end up building it or creating it for them or two i find a client who has kind of an old ghetto outdated website and i offer to revamp it for them refresh it rebuild it and then i move their website over to my server so i can get the residual hosting so that in a nutshell is how to start your own web hosting company of course there's a lot of different facets to this you know like dealing with clients and billing and setting all that kind of stuff up again definitely go ahead and check out this link because i talk about all of that stuff more in detail but if you have any questions let me know down in the comments below i'm happy to answer anything there's a lot to this but it is so lucrative you can make a ton of money doing this earning passive income by just reselling other services and cutting out bluehost hostgator godaddy or a plethora of other web hosting companies so let me know what you thought of this video there's a lot to cover so it's really not possible to do it all in one video but this is how i started the web hosting company you essentially can be your own company right now because you have a server and you can host cpanel accounts and websites on it and you can get rolling so again let me know if you have any questions otherwise i will catch you in the next video thanks for watching

Channel: Bryce Matheson

Views: 65,563

Keywords: start a web hosting company, web hosting, web hosting business, web hosting company, how to start a web hosting business, web hosting for beginners, best web hosting, best cheap web hosting, best free web hosting, passive income, passive income for beginners

Id: HLQXl1LYimk

Length: 11min 16sec (676 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 20 2020