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0 pointsqeternity4y ago0 comments

There are thousands upon thousands of hosting companies out there, most of which are barely breaking even, and are sold often for not much money.

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fxtentacle4y ago

This. They were struggling to find enough customers to break even. I had the customers but lacked the hosting knowledge and technology.

saimiam4y ago

Buy my startup @ https://PretzelBox.cc. Jokes aside, PretzelBox is a hosting company aka backend in a box and your comments are giving me a ton of hope.

fxtentacle4y ago

My first reaction was: "No idea what they do"

Then I read the "Host your blog right here on PretzelBox." and clicked the Blog link on top. "https://pretzelbox.notion.site/8d8ba84f16ea456984020cc15efad..."

And I thought to myself "So it's a well-marketed notion whitelabel reseller." You're probably good at marketing, but I'm not sure what Cloud back-end infrastructure IP you would have for sale...

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pavlov4y ago

That’s… not a hosting company though?

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swah4y ago

Just to understand: did you buy any actual hardware? Or "hosting company" means services on top of another hosting company that actually has hardware somewhere?

fxtentacle4y ago

Long-term rental for colocation cages in an existing datacenter + long-term leasing contracts for the hardware + long-term support contract with a guy that lives close to the datacenter and keeps a stack of HDDs in his basement

So in effect I provide cloud services and cloud APIs on top of physical bare-metal servers that are maintained and housed by someone else.

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fxtentacle4y ago

This. They were struggling to find enough customers to break even. I had the customers but lacked the hosting knowledge and technology.

saimiam4y ago

Buy my startup @ https://PretzelBox.cc. Jokes aside, PretzelBox is a hosting company aka backend in a box and your comments are giving me a ton of hope.

fxtentacle4y ago

My first reaction was: "No idea what they do"

Then I read the "Host your blog right here on PretzelBox." and clicked the Blog link on top. "https://pretzelbox.notion.site/8d8ba84f16ea456984020cc15efad..."

And I thought to myself "So it's a well-marketed notion whitelabel reseller." You're probably good at marketing, but I'm not sure what Cloud back-end infrastructure IP you would have for sale...

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pavlov4y ago

That’s… not a hosting company though?

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swah4y ago

Just to understand: did you buy any actual hardware? Or "hosting company" means services on top of another hosting company that actually has hardware somewhere?

fxtentacle4y ago

So in effect I provide cloud services and cloud APIs on top of physical bare-metal servers that are maintained and housed by someone else.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse