How to Start and Run a Web Hosting Business from Home (Udemy.com)

The author has many great suggestions and insights into setting up and running your own hosting business. However the course is a bit lacking in the hands on demonstrations. If you know the basics of creating a wordpress template, HTML, and CSS your knowledge level should be fine to follow along and setup your own hosting account. If your a complete newb to creating web pages, then maybe take a course or two on creating websites, if you take this course you are running a hosting company after all. I wish udemy had a qualifier when it says that a course is for beginners, as a beginner web developer could follow this course easily but a complete beginner to the field will have a steep learning curve. As I said before though, I liked the insights of how to run this kind of business from someone who has experience doing so.

I loved the SEO business course and decided to take this one from the same instructor. It was good, direct, to the point, full of resources, and even offered links to reputable reselling companies, BUT it was missing one critical piece: How do I determine the server/bandwidth needs of the customer? If I spaced for a minute and missed that, I apologize. I looked through the chapter titles again to be sure and didn't see anything that identified this area. Other than that, it was a great course and the WHMCS instruction was incredibly valuable.

Excellent course, business overview, real world tips. Brilliant marketing strategies, very informative. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested starting a web hosting service. I am a webmaster and internet marketing consultant, and I learned new ways of doing thing, thinking, and powerful actions to become more successful and prosperous. I am deeply grateful for Christine and here brilliant teaching skills, talents and gifts which are giving me a powerful direct path of learning in a quick and timely manner. A profound shortcut actually!! Tony Newton My only point of confusion is the "Lesson Texts" I didn't know if I downloaded the text if I could still view the video's. Also I would like to download them for each lesson for absorption reading and great clarity since I went through the entire course at one sitting and cannot find a link to download the text lessons.

Everything you need to know to get a Hosting business up and running. Well-organized and well-presented. Christine Maisel does make the complex a lot easier to grasp, and eliminates many unknowns with her effective business planning; her other courses come recommended too! This course, for me, might be improved with info about the sorts of specific problems one may encounter as a Host Reseller; and typical fixes. Just to sort of know if I could handle the contingencies, because a business that is "always on" comes with its own kind of special challenges that could make for a lot of stress. Also, she suggests further training for you or a Virtual Assistant, but some info about what that might be may be helpful - to get a better sense of the scope of responsibilities, and help in the decision to start this business. Nor was there much real world breakdown on what types of customer businesses get what types of hosting/server solutions, which may be helpful in marketing. What are niche factors in choosing hosting plans? As such, the course leaned more toward generality and less on technicalities or war stories - which may still be plenty for our purposes. This is probably the best training for starting a Web Hosting business you can find on the internet! If you have done a bit of research on this business, there may be few surprises in this course (which is good news); but she puts it all together into a pragmatic plan and gives you all you do need to get started - a terrific value and it really demystifies the business considerations! I am glad I bought the course during a promotional period; if I'd paid in full for it, I might wish for more specifics to assure that I was fully prepared to handle nonstop customer issues; and maybe a bit more server lingo for consulting or niche issues, if that's a consideration. I'm still not clear on how much active real world consulting vs passive online signup traffic a successful business model serves; nor any idea of the types of traffic/spikes/realistic potentials you could expect (which isn't exactly singing the praises of this business). Some Use Cases or simple example ROI schedules might have also been helpful and provide more concrete - demonstrable - financial goal-setting. (And why not discuss Affiliate Hosting options a little)? I always value Udemy courses that speak from real world experience more than theoretical pie-in-the-sky, and this course left a lot of variables subject to interpretation. 'Your results may vary." All in all, it was a great value at the discounted price, and a strong, useful value at the full price, especially if you follow through with it. But your results may vary. If you've done your own research, and grasp Digital Marketing, you probably already have an idea of much of what a Web Host Reseller business entails that this course won't surprise you about; there's no new IT technical training here, and that doesn't seem to be required, here. But there is still strong value in following her plan - in saving loads of time experimenting through trial and error and not going down the wrong road. And she provides specific tools which play well together, so that is valuable. Yes, the course delivers. But if you missed this course, you could probably still figure the business out yourself. Not a high barrier to entry, training-wise, like SEO or coding might be. Recommended, but don't let missing this course stop you from starting a Web Hosting business if that's what you want to do. It is not mission-critical information - and you'll have to come up with your own niches, services, marketing tactics and pricing plans anyway. Still, thank you very much again, Christine Maisel! Always informative and very sound training!

This gives a very good overview of what is required to set up a web hosting business. It's very practical and easy to follow. Christine is a fantastic lecturer. She really knows how to teach effectively and how to keep students engaged and motivated. The presentation is concise and yet it's packed with information. I really enjoyed this course and recommend it to anyone who wants to get started in web hosting.

My name is Greg Stevens with CallPath Solutions and I own a telecom business that is slowly making the transition to becoming a Managed Services Provider as selling hardware is dead as more companies are migrating to the cloud and hosted phone systems. I took Christine's course on starting a web hosting business as there are many MSP's offering web hosting and web design services and I have taken HTML/CSS courses in college many years ago so I was interested in making an additional revenue stream. This course is worth it. She goes into full detail outlining how to do this business for profit. I had some idea about using WHMCS as I host my own company's site on BlueHost and had experienced some down time and was aware of her recommendations for Reseller Hosting plans on Host Gator and InMotion. However, I was not sure how to sell web hosting services, developing a pricing strategy, marketing plans to attract customers, finding plug-ins to integrate WHMCS into WordPress, theme suggestions and more. This course gives me the confidence to move forward and buy a Reseller Hosting Account, most likely HostGator and add this as a revenue stream. I also enjoyed the tips for providing customer service and especially the brand-able Sample Business Contracts and Terms and Conditions. This is a great course and a wise investment for anyone looking to become a web designer, MSP, Web Host Provider! I whole heartily recommend it to anyone!

I think Christine's courses are very valuable to anyone interested in getting involved in starting a design, hosting or SEO business. I started off with Christine's Web Design Business course and migrated to her Web Hosting course, so that I could learn to setup and offer hosting services to my design clients. Christine provides very valuable information in this hosting course, including the tools you need, how to build your website, how to deal with customers and market to them. The one thing I didn't find much information on is how I should approach creating packages to offer my clients and how to value the packages and services I'd provide. I'd like some more information on that aspect. However, if there is anything missing from the course you are wondering about, you can ask Christine in the discussions and she is always very responsive and interactive with her students, which is very rare on UDEMY. Christine is a fantastic instructor and I will always purchase future courses from her.

I think you would really need to change the tile to the course. First this is all about setting a reseller hosing. Don't make any representation about recurring income. Obviously, there are other ways to set up hosting, that I was very much interested to know about. About half of the course has been allocated to marketing and customer service, which needs a full course. So now we have a course that partly talks about hosting and partly about marketing. So, the best way out of this is to change the tile of the course to : An introduction to Starting and marketing a reseller hosting business.

I have taken the Home Website Business course and the Home SEO Business courses, and like both of those, this one had some great content. I believe there are updates coming to provide a few more resources as are found in the other two, but aside from that there is a lot of great information here. Taking these three courses all together has really helped me figure out some great strategies and has made me very excited to see where I can take my business.

I have been offering web services for some time now, but it never dawned on me that I could offer web hosting and tie all those services together! Well, it did occur to me at one point, but I (uninformed) thought the cost would be way to much to be profitable. I was wrong, incredibly wrong! Christine doesn't only show just how easy it is to get started, but also what services/items are crucial to succeed in the long run. Packaging services, upselling, marketing, exposure, they are all touched upon in this course. The only critique, if there has to be one, is that the course makes things seem so simple, but in business nothing is simple. It's great to have a course to gain so much knowledge and insight into an industry that I have been working around for a while now.