True. However, the best support can be given by a pro who has a cooperation of the hosting company. Most of them will never cooperate, as they earn better (despite their awful quality of work) with an external person/company. So, your main channel - the hosting supplier, will probably not like you using it as a marketing channel, and you can hardly ever know (without some extensive search or cracking skills) which hosting service holds which customers.
Ez 2011/11/14 Hetz Ben Hamo <het...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > I'll give you one: Supporting hosting customers. > > Explanation: there are over 40 businesses here in Israel which provides > VPS and dedicated server renting solutions. > Most of those businesses (including mine) provide the machine to the > customers as "unmanaged", > which means: the support you'll get relates *only* to network (if your > VPS/Server) can communicate to and from the server > The other part of support: shutting down/restart/pause/reset the server. > > Anything else - you're on your own. You can purchase a bank of hours for > support or you can get emergency support for a higher price. > > There are, of course, some hosting businesses which will give you managed > service, but in most case I would strongly recommend to get a freelance who > will do the job for the client. > > Why? because they *SUCK AT IT* ! spreading root privileges all over the > place, changing permissions of directories and files to 777, opening the > internal firewall (if it exists, most of the time it's not) to everyone+his > dog, and other nonsense stuff, and I'm also talking about the *BIG* > providers which are also ISP - they suck, period! > > I think that this niche is mostly empty and people can get some > jobs/contracts with such customers. > > If anyone want to register himself, I have a neutral forum for that. see > here: http://hosts-forum.com/index.php > > Hope this helps, > Hetz > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > >> We need some process for identifying the next niche to pursue, taking >> into account current skill set, customers/contacts, and effort&expense >> incurred in acquiring the competencies relevant for the next niche. >> >> Did anyone blog about such a process? >> -- > > *חץ בן חמו > חץ-ביז > *השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים > מעוניין להשתמש בשרותים שחסומים לגולש הישראלי? Hulu? NetFlix? Pandora? > Google Voice? אם כן, היכנס לכאן <http://vps.net.bz/?p=406>. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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