Undergrad Research Question Regarding Startup Costs

[ElliottM]

Hello,

First of I am new to this forum so apologies if this is posted in the wrong place.

I’m currently a Business Information Technology student, researching how viable a privacy-by-design hosting service would be, currently I’m in contact with several cryptographers to find out whether this is can technically be done.

I have been looking at costing recently and found surprisingly little information on both the web and university databases. Would anyone on here be able to provide a rough idea of start up costs, basing the size of the company on “HostingUK dot net” . What would be recommended buying vs leasing. As its research there isn’t a budget, however I would like to try to stick to the example provided above.

I know this is a very vague question and I apologise for that!

Regards,

Elliott

 

[micohosting]

Depends on what you are going to do...There are many ways to get into bussiness...

 

[ughosting]

Basically, it's gonna be expensive.

Cryptography is mathematically expensive for CPUs to perform. So if your harddrives are encrypted and your traffic is also encrypted it will not scale well and will not follow any of the models that a normal host follows.

i.e. maximise performance with memory caching etc, as that would be insecure.

You will need to be able to explain to your customers why your service are so much more expensive than traditional, but secure hosting.

Maybe a further explanation of what it is exactly that you are offering may help in getting a less vague answer.

 

[ChromeHost-Sid]

basing the cost on the webhost you provided, you are looking at a startup cost of $12000 for the first year. That is if you are without clients.