Free WSO Here's How I Sold Over $600k Worth of Web Hosting

[Daniel Brock]

Hello Warriors,

Dan Brock here, and I would like to share with you a little gift(a free course that details how to start your own successful web hosting company) I created for my Warrior friends here.

I currently run a web hosting company that I started when I was 16, and this thing has been monumental to the success of my internet marketing business.

There's only one problem.

I noticed that not many internet marketers have a web hosting company, which is strange to me seeing how perfect they fit together.

Let me tell you why:

• Unlimited resources to make websites with - with your own web hosting company, you can make new websites at well across a wide range of networks. Do you realize how powerful that is?
• An extra source of income - whenever my affiliate sites or my product sales are slow, my web hosting company has always been there to back me up.
• The income is VERY stable - I have some customers who have been with me for 7 years paying me month after month.
• An instant continuity upsell - How does a $20/m continuity program sound to you? I currently sell my web hosting service as part of an upsell for my WSOs and it converts like crazyyyy!

Seeing how no one talks about this, I decided it would be a good idea to provide some training materials to show you just how easy it can be.

You will get:

• 30 minutes of free video training.
• A free 14 page PDF mini-course.

These detail the basics behind setting up your own web hosting company, and a couple of the tactics I use to generate over $605,000 with my web hosting company successful.

I highly recommend you get my free WSO, just to see what you are missing out on:

HostLauncher.com - A Complete Blueprint to Starting Your Own Successful Web Hosting Company.

It doesn't matter if you are a newbie or a seasoned expert, there is something there for you.

So if you want to start your OWN successful web hosting service, you have to go here right now:

HostLauncher.com - A Complete Blueprint to Starting Your Own Successful Web Hosting Company.

Don't take the leap without it!

Thanks, and feel free to ask me any questions!

-Daniel Brock

P.S. It is A LOT easier and cheaper to start your own web hosting service than you may think. Get my free WSO to find out how.

[CompleteOnlineMarketer]

thx for putting this wso together -- it's something that's always interested me but my biggest deterrent has been providing technical support.

How do you get around the 1) time, and 2) skillset (lack of it) for helping people out with the many technical questions..?

thx again...

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by CompleteOnlineMarketer

thx for putting this wso together -- it's something that's always interested me but my biggest deterrent has been providing technical support.

How do you get around the 1) time, and 2) skillset (lack of it) for helping people out with the many technical questions..?

thx again...

Hello,

Common questions.

Simple answer:

1) Most support tickets can be answered in 60 seconds - even faster once you have canned responses set up.

95% of your support requests are from people who were too lazy to spend 2 minutes looking over their control panel.

2) Skill sets are something you develop as you spend more time on your business. Luckily for you, if you start off on a reseller plan you need absolutely no technical knowledge what so ever. If a client has a problem that you yourself can't resolve, you just ask your reseller host and they will do it for you.

What I am trying to say is, you don't need to know anything about server administration, Linux, programming, or anything like that.

Good questions though!

-Daniel

[kimmer551]

I always wanted to do this! I am glad you are offering this for Warriors
I just downloaded your affiliate ebook, thanks.

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by kimmer551

I always wanted to do this! I am glad you are offering this for Warriors
I just downloaded your affiliate ebook, thanks.

Thank you kindly! Enjoy

[colinph970]

Looks good - and good answers so far. $605,000 in how long? I want to start a web hosting company to add to my other online businesses and this might be very useful.

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by colinph970

Looks good - and good answers so far. $605,000 in how long? I want to start a web hosting company to add to my other online businesses and this might be very useful.

Hello,

This is over the course of roughly 7 years that I have been in business.

The coolest part of this particular business is that is has been running completely by itself for the past 5 years. I have literally spent no more than 60 hours of my own time working on it since then, which is a major plus IMO.

[abundantliving]

Hi Daniel,

I've thought about this over the years, but couldn't figure out how to do it without investing countless hours all the time to handle urgent problems (although I have a dedicated server, I've had to rely on my webhost manager time and again to handle technically involved issues I didn't have the knowledge to take care of... I know he works ALL the time, and I don't want to have to).

So my questions are...

1. How do you get around working all the time (let's be honest, there ARE urgent problems that come up beyond someone not taking the time to look at their cpanel)

2. How have you managed to run your business the past 2 years with just 60 hours of your own time invested?

Originally Posted by Daniel Brock

Hello,

This is over the course of roughly 7 years that I have been in business.

The coolest part of this particular business is that is has been running completely by itself for the past 5 years. I have literally spent no more than 60 hours of my own time working on it since then, which is a major plus IMO.

[abundantliving]

Duh, never mind. I opted in for your WSO and your materials answer all my questions... and more.

GREAT job Dan! Thanks for the freebie.
:-)

[nuwav]

Hi Daniel

Your WSO is brilliant, learnt quite alot :-) I am planning on providing web design services also, do you think its a good idea to combine this with the hosting site or setup a separate site just for web design?

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by abundantliving

Duh, never mind. I opted in for your WSO and your materials answer all my questions... and more.

GREAT job Dan! Thanks for the freebie.
:-)

No problem. Glad you liked it

-Daniel

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by nuwav

Hi Daniel

Your WSO is brilliant, learnt quite alot :-) I am planning on providing web design services also, do you think its a good idea to combine this with the hosting site or setup a separate site just for web design?

I would make two sites. One for your web design service - you upsell your web hosting plan.

Then make a separate web hosting site so you can advertise both services individually, while funneling in sales of your web hosting service through your web design front.

Regards,
Daniel

[nuwav]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brock

I would make two sites. One for your web design service - you upsell your web hosting plan.

Then make a separate web hosting site so you can advertise both services individually, while funneling in sales of your web hosting service through your web design front.

Regards,
Daniel

Thats what I thought, Thanks Daniel :-)

[sligon00]

Originally Posted by abundantliving

Duh, never mind. I opted in for your WSO and your materials answer all my questions... and more.

GREAT job Dan! Thanks for the freebie.
:-)

Holly sometimes you are soooo funny

BayAreaSteve

[cnr]

Daniel,

I've dipped my hand into web hosting before. Brought a company and didn't do the due diligence. I sold it awhile ago but learned a lot of things. I would like to get back into it but I wanted to know how it would be possible to sell dedicated servers to clients?
Is it possible? What's your opinion?

[4webmaster]

I've read your 14 pages book and can't wait to get the full one in 2010.
I'm already in the hosting business and know the in and out but having a book like yours is always benefit as we always need to learn even experts can still learn.

[opportunites]

Your Course is awesome! It is an “Open doors” product!
I want to Thank you Daniel for sharing the secrets of the web hosting services with the members of this forum. Now, everyone here is aware to this high profitable service. We all can profit from your expertise and your experience in this domain!
Your course is well organized and very well documented, but the best of it you share all the secrets and tips not only to start a profitable web hosting services but all the secrets to avoid the mistakes people make, and to succeed in this business model. Thank you for sharing the knowledge you have acquired by experience. That will save us a lot of time!
Thank you Daniel! You are the best!

[Woody C]

Just a quick question (I haven't finished all three videos): If we opted-in for the 14 page pdf and the 3 videos, do we have to opt-in again at the bottom of the page to be updated on HostLauncher 1.5? I definitely want to make sure I get the updates.

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by Woody Crenshaw

Just a quick question (I haven't finished all three videos): If we opted-in for the 14 page pdf and the 3 videos, do we have to opt-in again at the bottom of the page to be updated on HostLauncher 1.5? I definitely want to make sure I get the updates.

All opt-ins will get updates on the release of Host Launcher 1.5. You won't miss anything

Thank you!
-Dan

[greenovni]

Hello Dan

I currently have a web server that I built about 6 months ago. Would this work with your system?

[bha]

I have been thinking about starting a hosting company. I think I will give it a try as a my first new business opp in 2010.

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by greenovni

Hello Dan

I currently have a web server that I built about 6 months ago. Would this work with your system?

I am not a big fan of the old host your server at home gag.

Here is the reason:

• Anything connection other than oc3+ is not able to handle web hosting customers. Cable/DSL/T1 doesn't have the power, reliability, or transfer speed to handle a web hosting server.
• You have to pay like $60/m for an external control panel license when you can get them directly from a datacenter for under $20/m if you rent a server from them.
• It costs about $15-$20/m to keep a server running 24/7 off your home power supply.
• You have to handle support all yourself, including catastrophic events like a serve meltdown. So basically you are screwed unless you are highly skilled at system administration.

But overall, you aren't going to save any money doing it off your own home server.

Regards,
Dan

[bha]

What type of hosting plans did you offer? It seems like everyone is offering "unlimited", is this the business model you had and what you recommend?

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by bha

What type of hosting plans did you offer? It seems like everyone is offering "unlimited", is this the business model you had and what you recommend?

I have never offered unlimited plans before.

I know a lot of places use them, but they are just marketing gimmicks.

Basically when they say unlimited it means:

'We will let you use unlimited disk space or bandwidth, but when you actually use a lot we will suspend and terminate your account and send you on your way'.

The truth is, you could offer unlimited everything and only half of a percentage of your customers will ever use more than 1GB of disk space and 10GB of bandwidth.

Regards,
Daniel

[Woody C]

This is the first that I've seen about getting into creating your own hosting company, and personally, I'm excited. Will Host Launcher go into the pros and cons of being a reseller vs. an affiliate of a hosting company, such as Host Gator? If not, could you elaborate on why you think being a reseller is better?

[Steven Miranda]

Dan,

Thanks a lot for the free info!

I have always been very interesting in creating my own web hosting company but the competition t there makes the market look pretty cut throat. Most reseller plans give you about 50/100gb space lets say. How could I make my hosting plans at $10/month for lets say 5gb space when almost every other host out there (host gator, surpass hosting) is charging $5 for unlimited space or 500-600gb?? I understand the 'unlimited' space is just a marketing ploy but still , customers don't care.

I really want to start my own web host but for this fact alone it makes me wonder... ?

Thanks

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by Woody Crenshaw

This is the first that I've seen about getting into creating your own hosting company, and personally, I'm excited. Will Host Launcher go into the pros and cons of being a reseller vs. an affiliate of a hosting company, such as Host Gator? If not, could you elaborate on why you think being a reseller is better?

Hello,

Simply being an affiliate for a web hosting company is not really doing your own thing. If anything, its just plain old affiliate marketing.

If you run your own company you can do a lot more things like expanding by word of mouth(which is really powerful in the hosting industry), which you couldn't do if you were selling as an affiliate.

Another perk is that a lot of your customers will stay with you for multiple years meaning you will earn more than you could as an affiliate.

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by imationx

Dan,

Thanks a lot for the free info!

I have always been very interesting in creating my own web hosting company but the competition t there makes the market look pretty cut throat. Most reseller plans give you about 50/100gb space lets say. How could I make my hosting plans at $10/month for lets say 5gb space when almost every other host out there (host gator, surpass hosting) is charging $5 for unlimited space or 500-600gb?? I understand the 'unlimited' space is just a marketing ploy but still , customers don't care.

I really want to start my own web host but for this fact alone it makes me wonder... ?

Thanks

Let me put it to you this way.

99% of the 3000+ customers I have hosted in my career have never used more than 1GB of disk space and 10Gb of bandwidth and I have given them limits of 50GB+ of disk space and hundreds of GB of bandwidth.

Most use MBs, not GBs.

[Steven Miranda]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brock

Let me put it to you this way.

99% of the 3000+ customers I have hosted in my career have never used more than 1GB of disk space and 10Gb of bandwidth and I have given them limits of 50GB+ of disk space and hundreds of GB of bandwidth.

Most use MBs, not GBs.

Thanks for that info. I know what you mean, that does make a lot of sense. But from a customers point of view - Woudln't they find and go with a larger , well known host offering unlimited everything over someone like me with little reputation and very limited space/bandwidth. Sorry, If I sound negative , I am just trying to figure out if I should jump on this venture or if I would just be wasting time in a highly competive market place.

thanks!

[bha]

Originally Posted by imationx

Thanks for that info. I know what you mean, that does make a lot of sense. But from a customers point of view - Woudln't they find and go with a larger , well known host offering unlimited everything over someone like me with little reputation and very limited space/bandwidth. Sorry, If I sound negative , I am just trying to figure out if I should jump on this venture or if I would just be wasting time in a highly competive market place.

thanks!

What is going to stand out to your customers is the level of one on one or personal service that you will (or can) give them that HostGator and other larger companies can not.

[TheDebtEliminator]

Hello Daniel ,

I appreciate your information on hosting

You have openen my eyes to the possibilities of operating this as a business

Best Regards

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by imationx

Thanks for that info. I know what you mean, that does make a lot of sense. But from a customers point of view - Woudln't they find and go with a larger , well known host offering unlimited everything over someone like me with little reputation and very limited space/bandwidth. Sorry, If I sound negative , I am just trying to figure out if I should jump on this venture or if I would just be wasting time in a highly competive market place.

thanks!

Let me re-phrase it for you.

Since your customers will never use more than 1Gb of disk space and 10GB of bandwidth, it doesn't matter if you offer 5GB of disk space, 10GB, 100GB, or even 1000GB.

Get what I'm saying?

In other words, you can put whatever numbers you want on your plan specs because no one will ever use it.

To this day I have still yet to have a customer use more than 50GB.

If it ever becomes a problem, you can always politely tell them they need to find another provider(still haven't had to do this).

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by bha

What is going to stand out to your customers is the level of one on one or personal service that you will (or can) give them that HostGator and other larger companies can not.

100% correct.

Nice one!

[bha]

Daniel,

How many different hosting plans do you offer your customers?

[Steven Miranda]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brock

Let me re-phrase it for you.

Since your customers will never use more than 1Gb of disk space and 10GB of bandwidth, it doesn't matter if you offer 5GB of disk space, 10GB, 100GB, or even 1000GB.

Get what I'm saying?

In other words, you can put whatever numbers you want on your plan specs because no one will ever use it.

To this day I have still yet to have a customer use more than 50GB.

If it ever becomes a problem, you can always politely tell them they need to find another provider(still haven't had to do this).

ah ha. It makes perfect sense now. I am going to convert my shared hosting plan to reseller now and get right on this. I hope I can become success in this market!

Dan - Do you have ANY estimation on how long it would take to make a full-time , stable income with this type of business if you put 2-4 hours/day into it? (I don't want to work the day job for much longer)

[sreeprashanth]

Hi Daniel,

First thanks for this FREE WSO, it is great .

i went through your course and it just what i wanted, because i was thinking to start an web hosting business all the time but i did not even take one step in this direction, like completeonlinemarketer, even i was worried about the tech support. not that this is clear i am ready to take the first step.

[sreeprashanth]

Hi Daniel,

First thanks for this FREE WSO, it is great .

i went through your course and it is just what i wanted, because i was thinking to start an web hosting business for all the time but i did not even take one step in this direction, like completeonlinemarketer, even i was worried about the tech support. now that this is clear i am ready to take the first step.

[jimboy]

Thanks a lot for this great info! I've been thinking about this myself and your FREE WSO has made me think more about doing it. Tech support has been a worry for me but now you've taken that worry away. Thanks so much!

[windfall_results]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brock

Hello Warriors,

Dan Brock here, and I would like to share with you a little gift(a free course that details how to start your own successful web hosting company) I created for my Warrior friends here.

I currently run a web hosting company that I started when I was 16, and this thing has been monumental to the success of my internet marketing business.

There's only one problem.

I noticed that not many internet marketers have a web hosting company, which is strange to me seeing how perfect they fit together.

Let me tell you why:

• Unlimited resources to make websites with - with your own web hosting company, you can make new websites at well across a wide range of networks. Do you realize how powerful that is?
• An extra source of income - whenever my affiliate sites or my product sales are slow, my web hosting company has always been there to back me up.
• The income is VERY stable - I have some customers who have been with me for 7 years paying me month after month.
• An instant continuity upsell - How does a $20/m continuity program sound to you? I currently sell my web hosting service as part of an upsell for my WSOs and it converts like crazyyyy!

Seeing how no one talks about this, I decided it would be a good idea to provide some training materials to show you just how easy it can be.

You will get:

• 30 minutes of free video training.
• A free 14 page PDF mini-course.

These detail the basics behind setting up your own web hosting company, and a couple of the tactics I use to generate over $605,000 with my web hosting company successful.

I highly recommend you get my free WSO, just to see what you are missing out on:

HostLauncher.com - A Complete Blueprint to Starting Your Own Successful Web Hosting Company.

It doesn't matter if you are a newbie or a seasoned expert, there is something there for you.

So if you want to start your OWN successful web hosting service, you have to go here right now:

HostLauncher.com - A Complete Blueprint to Starting Your Own Successful Web Hosting Company.

Don't take the leap without it!

Thanks, and feel free to ask me any questions!

-Daniel Brock

P.S. It is A LOT easier and cheaper to start your own web hosting service than you may think. Get my free WSO to find out how.

Will HostLauncher discuss the finer points of outsourcing technical support for those who want to only focus on the marketing aspects of the business?

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by windfall_results

Will HostLauncher discuss the finer points of outsourcing technical support for those who want to only focus on the marketing aspects of the business?

While I do discuss proper outsourcing in HostLauncher 1.5, I won't dive down deep enough to cover the aspects of running an outsourced support service.

Regards,
Dan

[Darek]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brock View Post
Let me put it to you this way.

99% of the 3000+ customers I have hosted in my career have never used more than 1GB of disk space and 10Gb of bandwidth and I have given them limits of 50GB+ of disk space and hundreds of GB of bandwidth.

Most use MBs, not GBs.

Even though most clients may not use their full disk space and bandwidth allocation, they can see how much bandwidth was allocated to them in CPanel!

How do you get around this?

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by Darek

Even though most clients may not use their full disk space and bandwidth allocation, they can see how much bandwidth was allocated to them in CPanel!

How do you get around this?

Sorry for the delay.

You simply offer them more disk space and bandwidth knowing that they will never use it all.

Regards,
Daniel

[bha]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brock

Sorry for the delay.

You simply offer them more disk space and bandwidth knowing that they will never use it all.

Regards,
Daniel

What reseller are you using? Most resellers do not allow overselling and most do not provide enough disk space for you to offer more than 2 or 3 customers 25Gb of disk space or bandwidth. I do know that you can get a vps to get around this, but some people may not have the technical know how to work a vps.

[Daniel Brock]

Originally Posted by bha

What reseller are you using? Most resellers do not allow overselling and most do not provide enough disk space for you to offer more than 2 or 3 customers 25Gb of disk space or bandwidth. I do know that you can get a vps to get around this, but some people may not have the technical know how to work a vps.

I know that a lot of the most mentioned providers don't allow overselling of their reseller hosting plans.

I assure you, the are tons of reseller services out there that allow overselling. It is a matter of clicking a check box within WHM to activate it.

You should ask your reseller candidate if they allow it.

Regards,
Daniel

[scorpio9]

Hi Daniel,
I have a domain name reseller acount from where I can offer webhosting but I have have stayed away from the webhosting side because they are not offering cPanel (which happens to be my favourite panel). I know many companies don't offer cpanel but does it make a difference to the average customer if it's cPanel or not?

Ive probably had 6 or more of the lower end shared hosting providers and on the whole been disappointed. I'm now using a high end VPS provider and couldnt be happier (as soon as I moved to them I saw 50% jump in traffic - go figure!), do you think it is better business to be a reseller at the higher level or have a go at the cut throat low cost range?

scorpio9

[nuwav]

Hi Daniel,

When starting out is it advisable to start a hosting company in your home country or do you think its better to start a worldwide hosting company?

[MADULALI]

Daniel,

Thanks for the offer. This is some great content.


Michael

[Marine]

I'll try to help you understand how you can Over sell.

I copied the following right from the FAQ in the Pre-Selling area on my website hosting site:

How can we offer such a good deal?

"A lot of our customers run small businesses or personal websites, which don't use much disk space or bandwidth on our servers. As a result, even our most demanding business clients are able to save money by signing up for the same package of our low cost web hosting as everyone else."

That's exactly what Dan is telling you.

To simplify it even more, an example: If you pay $35 a month for 25GB of space with 200GB of bandwidth, and you sell: 10 accounts with 1GB of space and 10GB of bandwidth for $10 a month and 10 accounts with 2GB of space and 20GB of bandwidth for $15 a month.

That means you will be selling 30GB of space with 300 GB of bandwidth. You are counting on none of your customers using all of their resources, which 99.9%of the time they don't, and you will be making $325 a month without a lot of work


I don't worry about over selling any more because I've been doing this since 2001. It was the first business I started on the internet and I have my own server now. For years I was a reseller and never even thought about it

Now I setup resellers and don't mind if they go over some, as long as they don't try to take advantage of my generosity, but none of them ever have.

I hope that helps you see the BIG picture a little better.

If you have any questions, and/or if you're interested to start your own business, plase send me a PM because I'll be offline today getting ready for my Cowboys tonight

Semperfi!

Neil

[thriftgirl62]

wOW!!

I can't wait to read this but I just wanted to THANK You for answering one of the biggest questions nobody seems to have the answer for. I have had a few web hosting companies - but I don't know what to do with them.

I hope you do have the answers - I'm going to find out right now!!! And Thanks again.. I think I had the right idea but I never got past the door... are you the DOORMAN?? Yes, I think you just might be!!

[Johnathan]

Hi Daniel,

Good introductory guide. Curious, do you still do it? And what do you think of the fact that the landscape seems to haev gotten ridiculously competitive? I.e., 'big time' hosting companies charging $5/month shared hosting, etc?