[OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

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.

Ez

2011/11/14 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I'll give you one: Supporting hosting customers.
>
> Explanation: there are over 40 businesses here in Israel which provides
> VPS and dedicated server renting solutions.
> Most of those businesses (including mine) provide the machine to the
> customers as "unmanaged",
> which means: the support you'll get relates *only* to network (if your
> VPS/Server) can communicate to and from the server
> The other part of support: shutting down/restart/pause/reset the server.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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!
>
> I think that this niche is mostly empty and people can get some
> jobs/contracts with such customers.
>
> If anyone want to register himself, I have a neutral forum for that. see
> here: http://hosts-forum.com/index.php
>
> Hope this helps,
> Hetz
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
>
>> We need some process for identifying the next niche to pursue, taking
>> into account current skill set, customers/contacts, and effort&expense
>> incurred in acquiring the competencies relevant for the next niche.
>>
>> Did anyone blog about such a process?
>> --
>
> *חץ בן חמו
> חץ-ביז
> *השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים
> מעוניין להשתמש בשרותים שחסומים לגולש הישראלי? Hulu? NetFlix? Pandora?
> Google Voice? אם כן, היכנס לכאן <http://vps.net.bz/?p=406>.
>
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