<div dir="ltr">True. However, the best support can be given by a pro who has a cooperation of the hosting company. Most of them will never cooperate, as they earn better (despite their awful quality of work) with an external person/company. So, your main channel - the hosting supplier, will probably not like you using it as a marketing channel, and you can hardly ever know (without some extensive search or cracking skills) which hosting service holds which customers.<div>
<br></div><div>Ez<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/14 Hetz Ben Hamo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hetzbh@gmail.com">hetzbh@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;border-right:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I'll give you one: Supporting hosting customers.</div><div><br></div><div>Explanation: there are over 40 businesses here in Israel which provides VPS and dedicated server renting solutions.</div>
<div>Most of those businesses (including mine) provide the machine to the customers as "unmanaged", </div><div>which means: the support you'll get relates <u>only</u> to network (if your VPS/Server) can communicate to and from the server</div>
<div>The other part of support: shutting down/restart/pause/reset the server.</div><div><br></div><div>Anything else - you're on your own. You can purchase a bank of hours for support or you can get emergency support for a higher price.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There are, of course, some hosting businesses which will give you managed service, but in most case I would strongly recommend to get a freelance who will do the job for the client.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Why? because they *SUCK AT IT* ! spreading root privileges all over the place, changing permissions of directories and files to 777, opening the internal firewall (if it exists, most of the time it's not) to everyone+his dog, and other nonsense stuff, and I'm also talking about the *BIG* providers which are also ISP - they suck, period!</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think that this niche is mostly empty and people can get some jobs/contracts with such customers.</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone want to register himself, I have a neutral forum for that. see here: <a href="http://hosts-forum.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://hosts-forum.com/index.php</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div>Hetz</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Omer Zak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:w1@zak.co.il" target="_blank">w1@zak.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">We need some process for identifying the next niche to pursue, taking<br>
into account current skill set, customers/contacts, and effort&expense<br>
incurred in acquiring the competencies relevant for the next niche.<br>
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Did anyone blog about such a process?<br></div>-- </blockquote></div><div dir="rtl"><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin-top:8px;margin-right:8px;margin-bottom:8px;margin-left:8px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<p dir="rtl"><strong style="font-size:10px"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 128)"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal">חץ בן חמו</span><br>ח</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255)">ץ</span>-<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 128)">ב</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255)">י</span><span style="color:rgb(51, 102, 255)">ז</span><br>
</span></strong>השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים<br>מעוניין להשתמש בשרותים שחסומים לגולש הישראלי? Hulu? NetFlix? Pandora? Google Voice? אם כן, היכנס <a href="http://vps.net.bz/?p=406" target="_blank">לכאן</a>.</p></div></div>
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