The rapid development of computers, tablets, smartphones and other electronic devices has changed all areas of life. Business management is no exception. A lot of software options have been created for automating business management and accounting. Today, business automation software from 1C is considered the most progressive and optimal - it can be used to solve all emerging problems in any sector of activity.
A leader of any rank needs timely, correct and full-scale data on the state of affairs in the company. Any interruptions in information flow can cause considerable harm, affecting the speed and accuracy of decisions.
Interruptions in the flow of information from the bottom up and in the opposite direction often lead to financially irreparable situations. There is a need to create a complex system that ensures the stable operation of a company or enterprise. Such systems are subject to many risks that need to be considered when building them.
Risks and ways to protect against them:
Human factor, which is an accidental or deliberate change in the 1C database of any data. The surest way to protect yourself from such actions is to back up. There are two options for this: the first and the simplest is to create a backup copy of the entire database, the second and more reliable is to use two database servers, one of them will be the main one, and the second is the backup one - all changes that occur from the main one will be automatically copied to it. database.
Physical breakdowns... Any iron, even the most branded, can break at the most inopportune moment. So, for example, when using hard drives with a volume of more than 1 GB and RAID 5, the likelihood that when the array is rebuilt, the second hard drive will drop out exponentially. Therefore, the concept of redundancy should be understood not only as backups, but also as a hardware component. The most excellent option would be to have a second remote server - a mirrored copy of the main one, on which the backup procedures will be performed.
Software crash... Any software product may contain various errors, in addition, each of them is constantly being improved and updated. An unaccounted for variable or the slightest inconsistency of file versions is enough, and the system begins to function either very unstable, or completely stops working. It is quite possible to avoid this, it is enough to first carry out testing on the test bench with a copy of "live data".
It is also worth considering one of the existing, but rather rare risks - illegal seizures and raider seizures... Unfortunately, these problems cannot be solved within the office. Someone takes the server room to neighboring offices, someone has all the equipment on the car and in the event of a similar problem, the car simply drives away. Here, of course, one can argue - “But what about the encryption of partitions, data? Cryptographic tools? " But in reality, it is very unlikely that the intruders will turn out to be gentlemen and will not use moral pressure and physical strength.
All these are partial solutions to local problems and there is a way to avoid them all, thanks to one solution - renting a 1C cloud server. This solution represents the transfer of the entire enterprise accounting and control system to a server in the cloud (see Figure 1). The term "cloud" or "cloud system" refers to a complex storage infrastructure that can be accessed over the Internet and operated at any time.
Figure 1 - General diagram of the organization of the cloud server rental service from EFSOL
The parameters of such systems strictly comply with the requirements of SLA - agreement on the level of the provided service. You just have to rent the necessary service, for example "Server in Israel", and all the above problems will be solved by themselves. Only employees of your company can use the information in such a system. Penetration of unauthorized persons into the database or removal of information without your permission is excluded.
To accommodate the equipment of such a complex system, a special room and trained personnel are required. The best solution is to create data centers in places with limited access. This simultaneously removes possible problems with Internet access, electricity supply, cooling of working elements. Terminal servers and 1C virtual servers are located on iron servers located in data centers of the Tier 3 class. This class allows you to maintain the required level of the N + 1 fault tolerance principle (N is the required working amount of equipment).
Comparative calculations
To make a decision on the advisability of using a remote 1C server, it is important to familiarize yourself with some economic calculations that do not pretend to be a complete economic justification, but can guide you in basic numbers.
For the calculation, let's take a typical configuration for the main and backup server.(see table 1):
- Supermicro chassis 2 * Intel Xeon E5-2643v4 3.4GHz - 3.7GHz,
- 32 GB DDR4,
- LSI 9240-4i - 2 * 1 TB SATA Seagate Enterprise Capacity (RAID1),
- 2 * 200 GB Intel SSD DC S3710 Series (RAID1)
Also, do not forget about software licenses. We need 2 server licenses and 30 CALs to work with the server over the network, 30 CALs to connect to the server through Terminal Services. For 30 users of 1C, a free DBMS like Microsoft SQL Express is usually not enough and it is necessary to use a full-fledged one. We also lay an uninterruptible power supply and a telecommunications cabinet to isolate servers from the external environment. We do not take into account the costs of the Internet, electricity and other running costs.
Table 1 - Calculation of the cost of purchasing your own server and software
| Server | 2 * Intel Xeon E5-2643v4 3.4GHz - 3.7GHz, 32 GB DDR4, LSI 9240-4i - 2 * 1 TB SATA Seagate Enterprise Capacity (RAID1), 2 * 200 GB Intel SSD DC S3710 Series (RAID1) , 2x650 Watt, IPMI | 460 800 | 2 | 921 600 |
| UPS | APCSmartUPC1500 VARM2U | 49 500 | 1 | 49 500 |
| Backup system | Synology NAS DS218play (4TB SATA 6Gb / s HDD) | 30 500 | 1 | 30 500 |
| Floor cabinet | Hyperline 24U, 1000mm deep, glass door, 4-fan fan tray, outlet strip, light equipment shelf, cable organizers. | 42 500 | 1 | 42 500 |
| Server license | WinSvrStd 2019 RUS OLP NL core 2lic | 6 600 | 8 | 52 800 |
| Client Access License | Microsoft Windows ServerCAL 2019 Sngl OLP 1License NoLevel UsrCAL | 2 650 | 30 | 79 500 |
| Terminal connection license | Microsoft WinRmtDsktpSvcsCAL 2019 Sngl OLP 1License NoLevel UsrCAL | 8 200 | 30 | 246 000 |
| SQL Server License | Microsoft SQLServerStandardEdition 2017 Sngl OLP 1License NoLevel | 54 000 | 2 | 108 000 |
| SQL Client Access License | Microsoft SQLCAL 2017 Sngl OLP 1License NoLevel UsrCAL | 12 750 | 30 | 382 500 |
| TOTAL, rubles: | 1 912 900 | |||
Consider the costs of implementing a 1C system, for example, "Trade Management" in a client-server version with the connection of 30 users (see table 2).
Table 2 - Calculation of the cost of 1C with the connection of 30 users in the client-server version.
As a result, 1,830,900 rubles are spent on the purchase of hardware and software and 212,500 rubles for 1C application software, for the organization of reliable work of 30 users in the company's office. The average salary of a system administrator to maintain this system in working order is 15 thousand rubles per month, I mean the incoming administrator, and not a full-time employee, whose salary is naturally much higher.
Also, do not forget about the cost of electricity for powering the servers, cooling them and renting an area (approximately 3 m2) for placing equipment, which will be approximately 2000 rubles / month. It should be noted that the obsolescence period of servers and software is 4-5 years.
For using the service of renting a cloud server on 30 users monthly payment is 25 thousand rubles and this price includes 30 MSOffice Standard licenses. Let's carry out simple calculations to assess the payback. For clarity, we will enter all the numerical indicators in Table 3:
Table 3 - Economic calculation of the profitability of renting a server.
| Name | Price, rub | Name | Price, rub |
| Power supply and cooling | 2 000 | — | 0 |
| 20 000 | 25 000 | ||
| 1 044 100 | Equipment | 0 | |
| 868 800 | Microsoft software (monthly) | 0 | |
| ON 1C | 228 400 | ON 1C | 0 |
| MS Office Standard Licenses | 654 000 | MS Office Standard Licenses | 0 |
| Total costs per month: | 22 000 | Total costs per month: | 25 000 |
| Total costs at a time: | 2 795 300 | Total costs at a time: | 0 |
RUB 3000 / month 931.7 months (77.6 years).
You can consider another option, when 1C licenses will already be purchased independently, and MS Office will be replaced by free Open Office or will not be in demand at all. What happens then, see table 4:
Table 4 - Economic calculation excluding 1C and MS Office.
| Ownership costs | Rental costs (for 30 users) | ||
| Name | Price, rub | Name | Price, rub |
| Power supply and cooling | 2 000 | — | 0 |
| Outsourcing of IT professionals (monthly) | 20 000 | Server and maintenance (monthly) | 25 000 |
| Equipment (2 servers, UPS, cabinet, network storage) | 1 044 100 | Equipment | 0 |
| Microsoft software (Windows, MS SQL) | 868 800 | Microsoft software (monthly) | 0 |
| ON 1C | 0 | ON 1C | 0 |
| MS Office Standard Licenses | 0 | MS Office Standard Licenses | 0 |
| Total costs per month: | 22 000 | Total costs per month: | 25 000 |
| Total costs at a time: | 1 912 900 | Total costs at a time: | 0 |
The difference in monthly payments is 3,000 rubles / month, therefore, the payback period is 637.6 months (53.13 years).
Taking into account Moore's law and the growing needs of production facilities, during this time our system will become obsolete and will not be able to provide the required performance.
For objectivity, you can consider another option when there will be only one server - without redundancy. We do not include the backup system and uninterruptible power supply in the calculation (see table 5).
Table 5 - Economic calculation, taking into account one server, excluding 1C and MS Office.
| Ownership costs | Rental costs (for 30 users) | ||
| Name | Price, rub | Name | Price, rub |
| Power supply and cooling | 2 000 | — | 0 |
| Outsourcing of IT professionals (monthly) | 20 000 | Server and maintenance (monthly) | 25 000 |
| Equipment (1 server, cabinet) | 503 300 | Equipment | 0 |
| Microsoft software (Windows, MS SQL) | 868 800 | Microsoft software (monthly) | 0 |
| ON 1C | 0 | ON 1C | 0 |
| MS Office Standard Licenses | 0 | MS Office Standard Licenses | 0 |
| Total costs per month: | 22 000 | Total costs per month: | 25 000 |
| Total costs at a time: | 1 372 100 | Total costs at a time: | 0 |
The difference in monthly payments is 3,000 rubles / month, therefore, the payback period is 457 months (38 years).
The above information and figures show the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of renting an IT structure instead of buying and maintaining your own equipment. Creating your own information system is not only more expensive, but also subject to a greater number of risks and external influences, which naturally makes your business more vulnerable and less competitive.
We have created a set of cloud services that will not only help you use modern business solutions, but are also the most expedient in cost optimization.
If your business revolves around web development, hosting your customers is a logical add-on. By doing this, we kill two birds with one stone - a small additional income and less problems with a crookedly configured client host. We will always configure our server so that our programs work on it without problems.
So, what do you need to know and and be able to to open your own web hosting business?
1.Server
For a start, one dedicated server is enough. Unix or Windows - you decide. We needed support for both ASP and PHP, so we had to take it under Windows.
When the number of clients on the server reaches a certain critical value (100-250 clients, depending on many parameters), take another server, etc.
If you have multiple providers in mind, subscribe to their mailing list. They are happy with interesting sales. For example, we took a server with a prepayment and a small monthly payment, which has already paid off.
2. Control panel
The beauty of web hosting lies in a control panel such as Plesk, Helm or DirectAdmin. The panel makes life easier for the administrator, hiding most of the unnecessary details from him. In addition, it provides an interface for end users where they can configure FTP, email, password protect directories, etc.
We chose Plesk and were satisfied. Everything is quite simple and intuitive.
3. Billing
To collect money from clients on a regular basis, you need a billing system. We first installed ModernBill, but it turned out to be unbearably buggy. Neither we nor the specialists from their technical support were able to launch it. We lost two months on this and switched to WHMCS. It has fewer options, but everything works and is much easier to configure. Moreover, for a penny, their technical support installed and configured everything on our server. I highly recommend it.
As in the case of choosing a hosting provider, it makes sense to read the section on choosing a billing system on WebHostingTalk.
4. Backups and redundancy
You cannot afford to lose customer data. There are several strategies, the best results are achieved by combining them.
Using a RAID controller can protect yourself from hard drive failure. It is unlikely that both disks will fail at the same time. From physical destruction of data, say, in the event of a fire or as a result of the actions of a virus, automatic backups will save. As a backup software, I recommend looking at Acronis True Image. Plesk has support for it.
5. Website
Everything is simple here. A suitable template is found on the OSWD and finalized with a file.
Here's the original template. Here's what happened at the output.
6.Accepting payments
If you have been doing business online for several days, this is not a question for you. Accept payments in all ways available to your customers and you will be happy. Remember to make sure your billing system supports all of these payment methods.
As an experiment, I opened a full-fledged merchant account for this business and filled up the cones. The main points are:
you need to be ready to provide a bunch of documents and financial statements of the company.
if you have several websites or lines of business, each of them may require its own merchant account. When opening, I recommend specifying the main website and type of activity
merchant account companies may have their own rules that may conflict with the needs of your business. For example, my provider requires all services and products to be provided within 90 days. This makes it impossible for me to sell services such as tech support for one year through them.
7. User support
We only provide hosting to those who have already purchased one of our programs. Thus, we have few hosting clients and they are loyal. Hosting questions are sent to the main technical support queue and are answered on an equal basis with other questions.
If you are thinking of web hosting as an independent business, you need to take the issue of support more seriously. Most web hosting clients expect a response and solution to their problem within minutes or hours, 24x7.
8. Promotion
It is difficult to promote a general-purpose hosting company, the competition is great. Since we promote hosting only among existing customers, the following methods are used:
mention in the mailing list
the signature “Ask me about our web hosting special” in answers to user questions
we offer service to clients who have problems with existing hosting
button in the program that allows you to upload the generated application to the server in one click. This works, of course, only for our hosting clients, because in addition to the actual download, some actions are barely performed on the server
a little later we will add a hosting offer at a discounted price to the checkout process.
Actually, that's all. The initial expenses for purchasing software and renting a server were approximately $ 2500. Now there are several dozen customers who are quite satisfied with the service. When we finish running in, we will promote the service more aggressively.
Go for it and you will be lucky too!
Sergey Kornilov
Source: Notes on the Software Business
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Today, the Internet provides many opportunities for the development of all kinds of businesses. One of the most popular is the hosting business. Hosting is a certain place on the server, which is allocated for the placement of files and pages of the site. Accordingly, access to this place must be provided around the clock and uninterrupted, seven days a week. Only under such conditions a hosting company can provide high-quality and competitive hosting. Therefore, if you do not understand much in this direction, you are unlikely to be able to run such a business.
Business characteristics
The main feature of a business is that in the provision of services, every slightest mistake can cost a lot of money. You should be able not only to provide good hosting, but also to give competent advice to clients. Even if you are just being impolite, the client will very quickly and easily go to a competing firm. And every client who leaves, reduces the level of your reputation in the market, thus reducing your earnings. Therefore, the business requires stability and responsibility.
There are several ways to organize this business. You can open your own company, recruit support staff, technical service, service personnel, and act as a director yourself. Or you can outsource a number of functions, and do the organizational work yourself. Be that as it may, in order to open your own business in this area, you need to go through certain stages of its formation.
Company registration
The business allows you to work with any form of ownership. Hosting can be provided by an individual entrepreneur, JSC or LLC. The first option will be the cheapest and fastest, since the state fee is 800 rubles. The rest will cost 1500-2500 rubles, but, in addition, it will be necessary to form an authorized capital of at least 10 thousand rubles.
An important point when registering - you need to open a bank account. In principle, this is a standard procedure for registration, but you need to choose a bank that provides the most convenient and favorable conditions for organizing payments via the Internet. The fact is that the bulk of payments from customers will go to you through electronic payment systems. Therefore, the bank must provide a reliable and convenient "Bank-Client" system.
Also, if you want to open a large company, you need to obtain a license for telematic services, which costs at least 12 thousand rubles.
Your clients
Before starting a business, you need to clearly understand who you plan to provide services to. There are three main types of clients:
- private site owners;
- large wholesale companies;
- resellers.
Different target groups require a different marketing approach, technical organization of the business. It is impossible to focus on everyone at once, so decide on the direction already at the start of the project.
Organization of a business plan
Having decided to open such a business, you must first calculate all the estimated costs, correlate them with the estimated income. The main expenses will be:
- purchase or rent of premises where the server will be located;
- buying or renting a server;
- employee salaries;
- Communal expenses;
- taxes.
If you find it is too expensive to start your own business, look for ways to optimize it. For example, certain functions can be outsourced or paid for the volume of work performed, rather than taking full-time employees for a stable salary. In addition, it is not necessary to immediately buy your server, you can rent it.
Server
The cornerstone of your business is the server. It depends on its characteristics which segment of customers you can serve, and your business as a whole depends on its work. The server can be Windows or Unix, it all depends on which one is more convenient for you to work with. Also on the market you can pick up a server of any required configuration and capacity.
At first, your company can be served by one server. It is enough to serve about 100-200 clients. When their number exceeds these figures, you can buy another server. You can build a business on your own server, or you can rent it. You can also purchase a used server.
The server must be located in the data center. If you plan to install your server there, it will cost about 2,500 rubles. The final amount depends on the reliability of the center, traffic, port and other characteristics. If you plan to rent it, you need to prepare at least 6 thousand rubles. Therefore, it would be more logical to buy your own unit, albeit a used one.
Control panel
To manage hosting, you need to install special software. It helps the communication between the client and the hoster and facilitates administration. Each participant in the process can log into the system under their own account and carry out all the necessary actions allowed by access. For such purposes, you can use the programs DirectAdmin, Helm, Plesk, CPanel, ISPManager and others. It all depends on your needs and financial capabilities.
For example, cPanel provides the following capabilities at work:
- Organization of a mail server and its management using various web-systems.
- Protection against hacker attacks - reliable firewall.
- Reliable work with domains and DNS depending on the tariff plan: creating domains and subdomains, etc.
- Installation of the most popular site management systems.
- Control over the operation of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, as well as setting restrictions on the number of queries to them, their number and other nuances.
- Monitoring and logging the server and existing accounts.
- Built-in billing system for making payments by clients.
Please note that this software must be licensed. The cost of a license usually depends on the period of use, the number of servers maintained. Such a program costs $ 45 for a month, $ 425 for a year, $ 775 for two years. You can purchase ISPManager for 656 rubles. for a month for one server, but then you need to separately purchase a billing system. For example, BillManager will cost 625 rubles. for a month.
Reselling
There is another way to open your own hosting - to sign a partnership agreement with a well-known hoster. Then, on the basis of the established agreements, he will often allocate his server for you to work. This significantly reduces start-up costs, but has its own disadvantages. So, if the service crashes, you will not be able to restart it yourself, you will have to go to the hoster, and this is precious time for which customers pay money. Such incidents hurt your reputation a lot.
This method of providing services is called reselling - resale. In fact, you become an intermediary between the hoster and the client, providing the latter with hosting and its services.
Legal and financial issues
There are a few more important issues that need to be resolved before starting your own business - how to legally formalize your relationship with a client and how to pay for services. As a rule, there are no problems with private clients, a user agreement is enough, which will be drawn up directly on the site during registration. But legal entities can require the written signing of the contract. You need to be ready for this, your name is your contract in your hands, drawn up and proofread by a lawyer.
Also consider what kind of payment system will operate in your company. It is advisable to provide all possible options so that the client can choose the one that suits him. Popular are:
- Bank account;
- electronic banking;
- Z-Payment;
- Yandex money;
- a WebMoney wallet with a personal passport and others.
Income and expenses
The main source of income will be the tariff plans for your services. Their size depends on the costs of premises, equipment, personnel, software. Depending on how much money will have to be invested in order for the hosting to work efficiently, the same will be the tariffs for services.
But high competition in the market dictates its own laws. According to experts, today hosting prices have dropped dramatically and continue to decline. A couple of years ago, the price for hosting was set at 3,500 rubles, and today its average cost is 1,000 rubles. per year or 83 rubles. per month.
The calculation of the tariff in this case is simple. At a price of 83 rubles. per month, taking into account 6% tax, the tariff for the provision of services must be at least 78 rubles. It is necessary to spend at least 1920 rubles on the server, about 2340 rubles on its software. Total expenses per month for the provision of services - 4260 rubles. This means that a month you need to serve at least 54 clients, or rather accounts (registered users).
Optimization of work
You can optimize hosting costs by reducing the number of these accounts, but increasing their cost. To do this, you need to take the following steps:
- Offer multiple tariff plans. The minimum should include, for example, the ability to host two sites, respectively, two databases, have a small amount of disk space in reserve. A slightly more expensive tariff plan will offer the possibility of more placement of sites and databases, and so on. This will enable each user to select a tariff plan according to his needs, without overpaying. You benefit from customer loyalty.
- Additional income can be obtained from related services, for example, setting up a site, transferring it from another server, installing, debugging a content management system, etc.
- In addition to purely technical ones, you can offer other services related to the operation of the site: administration, promotion, monitoring, etc.
Technical support and administration
Once again, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that technical customer support is almost the main thing that you should pay attention to if you want to open such a business. Even if you have difficulties in providing services, quality support will ideally smooth it out. Your employees should understand configurations, settings, common customer problems. It is important to be ready to answer any questions around the clock, seven days a week, all year round, seven days a week.
It is important to take care of the client, always warn him about possible failures or technical work on the server, not try to keep silent about them. Such trust is justified a hundredfold.
Marketing
Marketing a company starts with choosing its name and domain. To open such a business, you need to find a short and capacious name that will not only sound beautiful, remember, but also look good as a domain name. After all, you need to create your own website and conduct business through it. The marketing strategy is chosen based on what target audience you are targeting.
Ways to attract customers
- Install at least four different languages on your site, configure automatic language detection for the client.
- Develop various tariff plans and additional services.
- Maintain a tech support forum and blog on the site.
- Leave customer reviews on the site.
- Use promotional codes and affiliate programs.
- Compensate for failures with additional services, warn of possible failures.
- Use social networks to promote.
Nowadays, most people understand what huge business opportunities the global network gives us. One of the promising areas is business hosting or website development based on the servers of a hosting company.
There are several ways to sell hosting services. The cheapest of these is reselling. It means renting a dedicated server from a hoster. You can also conclude a contract for the maintenance of your own server and the end user to resell the host's services.
The next way is to open a stand-alone data center. At the same time, given the current market trends, it is advisable to do this in a strictly defined niche. It makes sense to create proposals for developing and gaining momentum of individual CMS systems.
A full-fledged hosting company operates in a separate room on its own equipment. Moreover, in our country there are no special permits and requirements for its opening. It is enough to register as a legal entity, buy the necessary equipment. However, those who want to create a large data center should be patient, since the procedure for obtaining permits is lengthy and very troublesome.
Opening of a large data center
The owners of large data centers in construction should be guided by the requirements of the international standards TIA / EIA-942. This will ensure the high quality of the services provided and facilitate the work of the center. However, own construction is justified only for very large companies. At the same time, there are certain risks here.
For the purpose of construction, you can hire a specialized company or a system integrator. In addition, when creating a data center, it is necessary to solve IT problems. So improper planning can lead to equipment failures, overheating of the system. Therefore, the requirements for the qualifications of workers involved in the design and implementation of databases are constantly growing.
Opening of a medium and small data center
Medium-sized data centers are often rented. At the same time, they have communication channels with limited bandwidth. If you are interested in: how to open your own hosting of a small volume, then keep in mind that having low-power equipment and poorly adapted premises, you will be able to provide a minimum package of services. At the same time, given the high level of competition, you will not have to count on a large influx of customers.
According to international quality standards, there are 4 levels of hosters' reliability. The lowest Tier 1 and the highest Tier 4. Competitive hosting should be guided by at least the Tier 3 standard: several channels of connection to the provider, connection of all equipment to two autonomous power grids, 2 stand-alone generators and UPS, the use of cooling devices.
According to the expert, in fact, in our country there is no commercial data center that meets the above standard, although some companies declare compliance, but this is not true.
Start price
To start in the reselling format, it is enough to purchase a service package from the hoster (maximum $ 20 per month) and develop a website (depending on the type of complexity up to $ 1,000). Investments will pay off in a couple of months. Renting a dedicated server that can host several hundred small customer sites will cost at least $ 100 per month, and buying your own server will cost you $ 1,000, plus a monthly maintenance fee of $ 80 per month. The payback period for such a project is one year.
To open a small data center, it will take from 40 thousand dollars. These are 5-6 servers, switches, office and staff of 5-6 people, billing panel, software. The payback period is 5 years.
The construction of medium and large data centers is estimated at several million dollars. In this case, the payback is approximately 3 years.
Therefore, it is the quality of services that can play a decisive role in the competition. How you treat customers, what additional functions you provide for free, how you react to problems that have arisen, how quickly you fix them - all this will affect the popularity of your company and, accordingly, the number of your customers. and their loyalty to you.
The main condition, of course, is the amount of disk space allocated to the client - the more it is, the higher the rental price. Also, the price is influenced by the number of sites that a client can create by subscribing to a particular tariff. You can offer several tariffs that differ in price, depending on different conditions.
But such a case will require more impressive preparation, so you need to familiarize yourself in more detail with what you will need in the future. Therefore, purchasing hosting for permanent use seems to be the most reasonable decision in the long term.
Therefore, you need to determine the tariff plans that will operate in your company. After you figure out all the costs, you will need to think about future income. You will receive them directly from customers purchasing space on your server.
The profitability of such projects is very high. And the last of the most important items of expenditure is the purchase of equipment. In total, you will need to spend about two million rubles in order to successfully start doing business. For a year, the money turnover can be sixty million, so you won't have to wait long for profit. As in the case of employees, it is not recommended to save on equipment, since the quality of your server will depend on it.
However, this is not entertainment, so you should be very serious about opening a hosting, having understood all aspects and drawing up a detailed business plan. Otherwise, you risk simply losing all your invested money. Today, there are already a decent number of ways to make money through the Internet, and you can get the most out of it if you open your own hosting. Over time, business is gradually moving from the real world to the virtual world, where new vast opportunities open up.
Therefore, first you need to prepare for the fact that various investments await you, which will not pay off immediately. Hosting as a business can bring in impressive profits, but it has to be waited and achieved.
It is definitely not worth saving at this point, since the quality of the services that you are going to provide will directly depend on the quality of the work of your employees. Still, you will have to hire several people, since you definitely cannot do absolutely everything. However, how to open your own server without the support of other specialists?
The primary importance in deciding how to open your hosting is determining the way in which you are going to open your business in this area.
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