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There may well be a constant passive source of income sitting on your desktop that you haven’t considered before. Selling web hosting to local businesses that don’t yet have an internet presence is an easy way to generate passive cash month after month, with very little effort on your part. Let’s take a quick look at what this entails and how you can implement it.
There are many different types of businesses that need an online presence, but don’t yet know it, or haven’t discovered a way to do it. That’s where you come in. Everything from florists to paint shops need a way to get to the multitude of customers who are now searching for goods and services online.
To go into this type of business you need to have either a reseller account with your own web hosting provider or your own server. I’ll just say it’s far easier, unless you are very well versed in configuring a server, to go with a good reseller hosting plan. There are a good number of them out there, and they give you a lot of space and all the bells and whistles your customers will need, and they’ll do the heavy lifting — all this for around $20-30 dollars a month.
You then can turn around and charge your customers whatever you choose. The going for hosting a single site is between $5-12 a month, but you are setting the rates here. In addition, you will be asked for extra services that you can choose to supply if you wish. Typical requests are things like setting up blogs, sites, installing scripts, even helping with purchasing domain names and more. You, of course don’t have to do any of this, especially if you don’t possess the expertise, however it would be a very good idea to have someone available who can help them with these things, as there are many web hosts out there, and they’ll just go somewhere that serves them better.
This is the type of deal where you can do as much or as little as you like. If you have the space and desire you can make it well known throughout your local area that you provide low-cost, dependable web hosting and you’ll have more customers than you can handle. In fact most of the business you’ll get can come from simply talking to people. If you do decide to promote yourself, put yourself on local sites, phone directories, and any place you can pin up a business card. It’s very easy to promote yourself in this type of business.
The only drawback in this type of web hosting arrangement is that you are on the line for help, at least at the owner level. Most reseller accounts will provide technical help, but you will generally be the first line of contact, especially if you are hosting a lot of friends and family, or even local acquaintances.
Hosting local businesses sites from your account is easily done and can provide a steady stream of easy, passive income with minimal involvement from you. Something to think about when times are tight!
