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Service Provider Hosting Is Possible
The simple concept of hosted services, already known and widely used for enterprise environments for quite some time, represents the perfect solution for a great number of small and medium sized companies that require a safe and reasonably priced platform. Applying the same concept at a higher level could result in Hosting and Service Providers leasing or renting virtual real-estate for the services they provide in order to lower their initial investments or subsequent upgrade costs.

Hosted hosting could bring the advantages that hosted services usually create for enterprises to SPs’ own tier and optimize their resource usage to the maximum extent possible. This also goes to prove there is a need for a new breed of hosting services, especially aimed at large SPs requiring large storage and server farms. Moreover, hosted hosting would improve the overall service quality since those companies hosting Service Providers would only have to manage the platform, leaving the service to the provider.

This increase in quality will very much appeal to the customer or subscriber base, as no one can ever turn down a better deal for the same price. What’s more important, even services on offer could get a lot cheaper as the SP would only pay a fraction of the cost each month and only for the resources it requires, changing its subscription plan based on the usage rates of its services.

What if Something Goes Wrong?
Like any solution, the hosted hosting concept is obviously not bullet-proof. So, besides benefits, there must also be some down-sides that need to be considered. However, since it is not a very commonly used method throughout the industry, we do not have any real-life examples on which to base our conclusions at first glance. To find out what these drawbacks might be and where trouble might be waiting for us, we will turn yet again to the already treaded path of enterprise hosting.

The main issues with enterprise hosting are the result of inefficient business partnerships. This is the single, most important factor to take into account when moving a service to a hosted platform. This is where service level agreements (SLAs) come in and uptime rates divert growing businesses to an uncontrollable downward spiral. With hosted hosting services, part of these issues will be inherently overcome because the responsibility of the platform provider will be to manage their own platform only and thus reduce complexity. On the other hand, a side-effect makes its way into the equation: the service uptime rates will have to be much closer to 100% than for current hosting.

To provide end-users and customers with a 99.97% uptime SLA, the Service Provider must have an SLA with the service hosting partner of roughly 99.9985% or more (note the four decimals). This requirement will make most decision-makers very wary and cautious about the companies that they do business with. A clean “failure record” and satisfied customer base will become just the tip of the iceberg in this new paradigm of hosted services.

Conclusions
For the SP market, the future is here. The hosted hosting concept will most likely pick up incredible momentum in the following years as it creates a vast array of opportunities for all players and can even allow some of them to make up for a slow start in the past.

For further details on this new hosting paradigm, a head-to-head comparison of the pros and cons of licensed and hosted services models, or a pertinent analysis of the factors that providers should weigh in when trying to select a stable and trustworthy business partner to host their messaging services, we also invite you to check out the highly-informative AXIGEN webinar on Hosted Email Hosting, at: http://www.axigen.com/webinars/hosted-hosting_19/

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Im 13. I want to start an online business over the summer. I want to make six or more figures a year. That might sound crazy since im only 13, but it is my goal. I have money to start the business, and my grandparents might invest. Coding will be done by my cousin who is at RIT for web design and programming, or I could hire a web design firm, or hire someone from Elance. I have a few ideas, but Im not sure which one I should do. Which one is the most profitable?

1. A website where users can submit original songs and other users can listen, rate, comment, share, and chat. Users can also create a profile page and keep track of there favorite music, find new band members in the band member finder, and post info. I would make money by selling ad space, and I could make money by creating a pro membership level if the site becomes big enough. I would either hire a web design firm (although i think it could cost $ 100,000, in that case, i wont hire a web design firm), a coder from elance for a good price, or have my cousin code it. I love this idea, and it doesnt have that much competition other than purevolume.com.

2. I would sell musical instruments (bass, guitars, drums, dj and lighting, vocals, keyboards) on my website. i would buy them wholesale and sell them for a bigger price. I would then have the wholesaler dropship to the customer. There is a lot of competition, though. Try Sam Ash or Guitar Center or musiciansfriend.com.

3. A job search website. This could be a site where the employers post wanted ads and people can apply for each job. I would charge the employer a comission to post the ad.

4. A online backup website. This is where customers can back up important data such as files, photos, music, etc. to a sever. I would purchase www.remote-backup.com’s virtual hosting set up for $ 500. it allows you to sell their customizable software to your customers and access the administrative stuff from a central account on their site. So I could have a plan for 5gb of storage and sell it to a customer for $ 25 a month. thats around $ 300 a year from only 1 customer. remote-backup only charges me the once for the $ 500, and charges me $ 1 for every customer i get and then $ .25 for every gb they use. Many people are backing up now, so this could be profitable. Although there is mozy and snapfish and other companies already around.

4. This is a website where people can post and sell and buy websites. Like sitepoint.com although. This could be a good site though since sitepoint does not focus on buying and selling sites although that is one of their services. This could be profitable by either charging a commision and/or selling ad space.

5. This last idea is a little weird. It is a site where one user starts a debate by putting in two sides such as mcdonalds vs burger king. Then other users choose which side they want to be on, and debate. Each comment they make would be on either side mcdonald or burger king depending on what they chose. and they have an argument. This could be useful in many ways. example, if someone wanted to buy something such as a computer, and they were stuck on mac or pc, they could create an argument mac vs pc and have great answers giving reasons why they should buy mac or pc. based on personal preference, the person could decide on mac or pc based on certain comments. This site could also be used for fun reasons to see which of something is better or what not. I would make money from selling ad space. This would be a fun site and i would hire an elance person or my cousin to build the site.

I like a lot of these such as the music sharing site, debate site, backup business, job posting site, but im not sure which one is good.

Could any of these ideas make me six or more figures a year? Which idea is better? Which idea should I do? Which idea is the most profitable?

Thanks.

(even if you dont think any of these are good, which would you choose if you had to?)

Thanks again.

Best answer:

Answer by Ef
I think there all amazing but i think my favorite is the music sharing site. Im 12 and im trying to think of a business to!

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Question by Matt: What website idea should I pick?
Im 13. I want to start an online business over the summer. I want to make six or more figures a year. That might sound crazy since im only 13, but it is my goal. I have money to start the business, and my grandparents might invest. Coding will be done by my cousin who is at RIT for web design and programming, or I could hire a web design firm, or hire someone from Elance. I have a few ideas, but Im not sure which one I should do. Which one is the most profitable?

1. A website where users can submit original songs and other users can listen, rate, comment, share, and chat. Users can also create a profile page and keep track of there favorite music, find new band members in the band member finder, and post info. I would make money by selling ad space, and I could make money by creating a pro membership level if the site becomes big enough. I would either hire a web design firm (although i think it could cost $ 100,000, in that case, i wont hire a web design firm), a coder from elance for a good price, or have my cousin code it. I love this idea, and it doesnt have that much competition other than purevolume.com.

2. I would sell musical instruments (bass, guitars, drums, dj and lighting, vocals, keyboards) on my website. i would buy them wholesale and sell them for a bigger price. I would then have the wholesaler dropship to the customer. There is a lot of competition, though. Try Sam Ash or Guitar Center or musiciansfriend.com.

3. A job search website. This could be a site where the employers post wanted ads and people can apply for each job. I would charge the employer a comission to post the ad.

4. A online backup website. This is where customers can back up important data such as files, photos, music, etc. to a sever. I would purchase www.remote-backup.com’s virtual hosting set up for $ 500. it allows you to sell their customizable software to your customers and access the administrative stuff from a central account on their site. So I could have a plan for 5gb of storage and sell it to a customer for $ 25 a month. thats around $ 300 a year from only 1 customer. remote-backup only charges me the once for the $ 500, and charges me $ 1 for every customer i get and then $ .25 for every gb they use. Many people are backing up now, so this could be profitable. Although there is mozy and snapfish and other companies already around.

4. This is a website where people can post and sell and buy websites. Like sitepoint.com although. This could be a good site though since sitepoint does not focus on buying and selling sites although that is one of their services. This could be profitable by either charging a commision and/or selling ad space.

5. This last idea is a little weird. It is a site where one user starts a debate by putting in two sides such as mcdonalds vs burger king. Then other users choose which side they want to be on, and debate. Each comment they make would be on either side mcdonald or burger king depending on what they chose. and they have an argument. This could be useful in many ways. example, if someone wanted to buy something such as a computer, and they were stuck on mac or pc, they could create an argument mac vs pc and have great answers giving reasons why they should buy mac or pc. based on personal preference, the person could decide on mac or pc based on certain comments. This site could also be used for fun reasons to see which of something is better or what not. I would make money from selling ad space. This would be a fun site and i would hire an elance person or my cousin to build the site.

I like a lot of these such as the music sharing site, debate site, backup business, job posting site, but im not sure which one is good.

Could any of these ideas make me six or more figures a year? Which idea is better? Which idea should I do? Which idea is the most profitable?

Thanks.

(even if you dont think any of these are good, which would you choose if you had to?)

Thanks again.

Best answer:

Answer by jay
to start i think that its really cool that your actually looking into something like this because i’m 16 and still never would have thought of anything even remotely close to this. i really like the 1st idea, and you can even have like a monthly charge for the bands submitting music and a monthly membership fee for others to download there music. i don’t know about 6 figures but if this thing gets off the ground, with the band fees, membership fees, and ad space coming in, you can make a lot of many.

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Question by Matt: Which website idea should I pick?
Im 13. I want to start an online business over the summer. I want to make six or more figures a year. That might sound crazy since im only 13, but it is my goal. I have money to start the business, and my grandparents might invest. Coding will be done by my cousin who is at RIT for web design and programming, or I could hire a web design firm, or hire someone from Elance. I have a few ideas, but Im not sure which one I should do. Which one is the most profitable?

1. A website where users can submit original songs and other users can listen, rate, comment, share, and chat. Users can also create a profile page and keep track of there favorite music, find new band members in the band member finder, and post info. I would make money by selling ad space, and I could make money by creating a pro membership level if the site becomes big enough. I would either hire a web design firm (although i think it could cost $ 100,000, in that case, i wont hire a web design firm), a coder from elance for a good price, or have my cousin code it. I love this idea, and it doesnt have that much competition other than purevolume.com.

2. I would sell musical instruments (bass, guitars, drums, dj and lighting, vocals, keyboards) on my website. i would buy them wholesale and sell them for a bigger price. I would then have the wholesaler dropship to the customer. There is a lot of competition, though. Try Sam Ash or Guitar Center or musiciansfriend.com.

3. A job search website. This could be a site where the employers post wanted ads and people can apply for each job. I would charge the employer a comission to post the ad.

4. A online backup website. This is where customers can back up important data such as files, photos, music, etc. to a sever. I would purchase www.remote-backup.com’s virtual hosting set up for $ 500. it allows you to sell their customizable software to your customers and access the administrative stuff from a central account on their site. So I could have a plan for 5gb of storage and sell it to a customer for $ 25 a month. thats around $ 300 a year from only 1 customer. remote-backup only charges me the once for the $ 500, and charges me $ 1 for every customer i get and then $ .25 for every gb they use. Many people are backing up now, so this could be profitable. Although there is mozy and snapfish and other companies already around.

4. This is a website where people can post and sell and buy websites. Like sitepoint.com although. This could be a good site though since sitepoint does not focus on buying and selling sites although that is one of their services. This could be profitable by either charging a commision and/or selling ad space.

5. This last idea is a little weird. It is a site where one user starts a debate by putting in two sides such as mcdonalds vs burger king. Then other users choose which side they want to be on, and debate. Each comment they make would be on either side mcdonald or burger king depending on what they chose. and they have an argument. This could be useful in many ways. example, if someone wanted to buy something such as a computer, and they were stuck on mac or pc, they could create an argument mac vs pc and have great answers giving reasons why they should buy mac or pc. based on personal preference, the person could decide on mac or pc based on certain comments. This site could also be used for fun reasons to see which of something is better or what not. I would make money from selling ad space. This would be a fun site and i would hire an elance person or my cousin to build the site.

I like a lot of these such as the music sharing site, debate site, backup business, job posting site, but im not sure which one is good.

Could any of these ideas make me six or more figures a year? Which idea is better? Which idea should I do? Which idea is the most profitable?

Thanks.

(even if you dont think any of these are good, which would you choose if you had to?)

Thanks again.

Best answer:

Answer by zuma
1. and 2. combined, all the rest are out there already.

You need a VC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital

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