David Vazquez
New member
Hey guys!
My name's David and I'm here sharing my Hosting Ventures proving to myself that anything truly is possible.
To me, web hosting started as a small reseller account I had the chance to mess around with. Tinkering with cPanel WHM led me to wanting to start my own web hosting business. Problem is, I'm only 15 years old so I didn't have much experience. I always, for whatever reason, tried and failed. However, the dream was still there to be in the web hosting business.
I later purchased my first VPS and worked with a few companies helping them with their business as well. Along the way, I continued to try to open more and more hosting businesses but once again, tried and failed. People on different sites including web hosting talk and even here, always somehow put me down saying I will never buy hosting from someone who is only 15 and runs the damn business.
This sometimes made me rather angry leaving me in dismay at times, forcing me to forfeit my goals. I later decided to buy a dedicated server to LEARN MORE about the hosting business to possibly get better in my ventures. I decided to go with SingleHop since I heard a lot of great things about them earlier.
I played with the dedicated server for about 2-3 weeks. I then decided to have a chat with Mike Crosse about possibly becoming an intern for SingleHop to learn about the hosting business. A day later I was having a chat with Zak Boca, founder of SingleHop. We discussed all that I can possibly do remotely.
I was then hooked up with an internal Jabber account to chat with the SingleHop staff. I started my duties as a Community Manager for the SingleHop Community. That itself was a great feeling just thinking that I have a spot in one of the biggest names in hosting. I worked on the Community for about 1 month. I then spoke to management about becoming a General Support technician.
Once again, within the following few hours, I was setup with access to our backend systems and was ready to go at the General Support tickets and then later became a datacenter technician.
It's been about 3 months that I'm with SingleHop as the SingleHop Intern now and so far it has been such an amazing experience. I gotta say I'm learning a lot and making a very nice living out of it. I'm planning on staying with them for a long time and I have no intentions of leaving any time soon. So if your a customer of SingleHop, be looking out for me answering your tickets.
As to everyone now in the hosting business or planning to start something in the hosting business: disregard everyone that puts you down and don't let even the smallest hurdles get in your way. Go for it, and never look back.
Thank you to everyone that helped me through this, especially Zak, Andy and the rest of those who helped me get to where I am at SingleHop.
My name's David and I'm here sharing my Hosting Ventures proving to myself that anything truly is possible.
To me, web hosting started as a small reseller account I had the chance to mess around with. Tinkering with cPanel WHM led me to wanting to start my own web hosting business. Problem is, I'm only 15 years old so I didn't have much experience. I always, for whatever reason, tried and failed. However, the dream was still there to be in the web hosting business.
I later purchased my first VPS and worked with a few companies helping them with their business as well. Along the way, I continued to try to open more and more hosting businesses but once again, tried and failed. People on different sites including web hosting talk and even here, always somehow put me down saying I will never buy hosting from someone who is only 15 and runs the damn business.
This sometimes made me rather angry leaving me in dismay at times, forcing me to forfeit my goals. I later decided to buy a dedicated server to LEARN MORE about the hosting business to possibly get better in my ventures. I decided to go with SingleHop since I heard a lot of great things about them earlier.
I played with the dedicated server for about 2-3 weeks. I then decided to have a chat with Mike Crosse about possibly becoming an intern for SingleHop to learn about the hosting business. A day later I was having a chat with Zak Boca, founder of SingleHop. We discussed all that I can possibly do remotely.
I was then hooked up with an internal Jabber account to chat with the SingleHop staff. I started my duties as a Community Manager for the SingleHop Community. That itself was a great feeling just thinking that I have a spot in one of the biggest names in hosting. I worked on the Community for about 1 month. I then spoke to management about becoming a General Support technician.
Once again, within the following few hours, I was setup with access to our backend systems and was ready to go at the General Support tickets and then later became a datacenter technician.
It's been about 3 months that I'm with SingleHop as the SingleHop Intern now and so far it has been such an amazing experience. I gotta say I'm learning a lot and making a very nice living out of it. I'm planning on staying with them for a long time and I have no intentions of leaving any time soon. So if your a customer of SingleHop, be looking out for me answering your tickets.
As to everyone now in the hosting business or planning to start something in the hosting business: disregard everyone that puts you down and don't let even the smallest hurdles get in your way. Go for it, and never look back.
Thank you to everyone that helped me through this, especially Zak, Andy and the rest of those who helped me get to where I am at SingleHop.
