Show HN: Bootstrapped Hosting company

7 points by vznatvps 11 years ago | 5 comments

This is some short information of how I bootstrapped my hosting company, pretty much an MVP of a hosting company.

1. Provide MINIMAL/NO support. No technical support is provided, all VPS plans and Web Hosting plans are unmanaged and provide only support on issues with services provided by us (billing, control panel) but nothing inside the VPS unless it is a fault on our end (network misconfiguration).

2. Automated setup. All VPSs are deployed instantly, (à la DigitalOcean) so no humans have to manually deploy them.

END PRODUCT: https://definedcodehosting.com

All payment is automatic via Stripe or Bitpay so the only human maintenance is checking the host node. Which is also automated, thanks Nagios!

Terpaholic 11 years ago |

Can you talk a little bit about your metrics or future plans? Looks interesting, would love to know more about how you're competing in this pretty competitive space.

vznatvps 11 years ago | |

We started off with a few servers in the Netherlands and just hosted the Mini NAT only range which took off really well. We've now bought a server in France to start a dedicated IPv4 range. We plan to expand this range into more countries and more places as it grows. Obviously then we will need a few more techs to manage the servers and it would become less bootstrapped.

stevekemp 11 years ago | | |

It's interesting to see people using NAT to solve the problem of restricted IPs. It is probably too late for a newcomer to claim an allocation of IPs from RIPE,etc.

Are you considering IPv6 support? Several people are out there offering IPv6-only hosting, (as well as the traditional folk who offer both), which is nice to see.

As a final question how are you planning to detect and deal with spammers, or copyright infringers? Both are drawn to cheap plans..

mjhea0 11 years ago |

https://definedcodehosting.com