How much have you invested in your reseller business?

[bandboy]

I have already invested close to $300 in my new reseller business. It offers free as well as paid web hosting. I purchased license for forum, website designing, WHMCS and few more things and investment has been little high.

How much have you invested in your reseller business?

 

[vishi]

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Well, that differs on the policies of the different companies...... Every company has its own plans and terms and conditions.

 

[PremiumHost]

Thousands of dollars.
A server monthly fee is $200+ already.

 

[cabron]

Well what you spent is change money compared to what my owner inversted.
How much do you think a few servers with Core 2 Duo E6600, 4 GB of DDRII and 2*400GB HDDs per server would cost? Not even mentioning colocation, wages, etc, etc

 

[ldcdc]

The OP is starting small though, very small. I know it is to be in the position where $300 is just about all you can afford to spend. You need a big chunk of luck to get the business off the ground when the budget is so limited, but I don't think it's impossible to do it.

A while ago I was considering starting a hosting business myself, off a reseller hosting account. My necessary budget kept on going up, once I started to consider not to cut corners. Eventually I let the idea go, as I realized I wasn't ready to commit to it full time (too much going on in my life at the time).

 

[stealthdevil]

I would recommend a reseller has a budget of at least $150 a month set aside for small time selling.. The costs do quickly rack up as you grow (but then, hopefully so should your profit).

Although being a reseller these days is much cheaper than before. Some hosts these days provide a complete solution to resellers (such as free billing application)..

 

[ldcdc]

Some hosts these days provide a complete solution to resellers (such as free billing application)..

And support the reseller's customers, 24/7, something that the one man show reseller could hardly provide otherwise (profitably).