[nabentre] getting started:a few questions/ideas

[Littlefield, Tyler]

hello all:
I had a few questions I wanted to run by some of you.
First, I'd really like to get into the area of web hosting and selling 
virtual-private servers. There's all sorts of stuff that can be done 
with this, but essentially it'd be nice to be able to start customers up 
and host their websites for them--perhaps with an easy interface to get 
them going.
While I realize web hosts are a dime a dozen, I want to offer security, 
privacy and stability as my selling point, together with an easy-to-use 
accessible panel and some other features that a lot of companies don't 
really have.
Given this, I've started looking at setting this up--perhaps by writing 
all the code and creating the needed services first. While I work on the 
code needed to manage all of this, I was trying to figure out how I'd 
actually afford startup costs. I'm in college, so money isn't exactly 
raining from the heavens; similarly, I don't tend to have much at all 
left over at the end of each month to throw in savings. Are there good 
resources for creating startups and funding?

I've also considered marketting a few projects I have on the workbench 
first, which might help me get going in terms of funding, to the point 
where I can expand. to that end and to help me, I've had some experience 
with IOS development and would like to start finding people who are in 
need of server administration, backend web development or IOS/desktop 
development. I've seen a few sites that are dedicated to this, but they 
generally want a monthly fee inn order to get going.

Any advice/information would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Take care,
Ty

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