Rags To Riches Success Stories

**SpecHosting** · 02-15-2010, 09:03 PM

I started website hosting in my parents house when I was 16 years old. I started with a reseller account and a enom inc. reseller. I never knew it was going to advance like it did. I went for about a year with only about 10 clients, all of which I acquired on my own through sending emails. Only two months after my 17th birthday, I was receiving sign ups almost daily. I was not marketing my small web hosting site at all, and it was growing. I started checking my logs and found that the majority of the traffic was coming for web hosting directories that I never signed up for. I had several reviews I never even knew about. Within only a month, I had a couple hundred clients, and I had soon outgrown my small bedroom in my parents house. I hired an outsourced agency to handle the support side, and let me tell you, that was the worst mistake I have ever made. When I turned 18 I purchased a small office and hired on a 2 Linux System Admins. By that time I had a hefty 8000+ clients, and more were signing up each day. Before you knew it I had to fire several more support reps and another Linux Admin. Another year went by, and we were soon outgrowing our small office suite. We had employees working in closets. We soon purchased a larger office to house more staff. By that time we had about 15,000 clients. Let me just say that I never expected it to grow like it did. I believe the level of support you offer reflects heavily on customer sign ups. We now host over 20,000 clients and recently launched a dedicated server department. We will soon be offering Reseller and VPS hosting as well. Our customers are very important to me, I am willing to talk to each customer personally to handle support and sales inquires. Let me know what I can do to help you!

**besthos-t** · 02-16-2010, 08:44 AM

Well is not your costumer but i appreciate you on your work. Congratulations. keep it up.

**lynxus** · 02-16-2010, 08:47 AM

Sounds good. Well done.

**stevenlw** · 02-19-2010, 02:17 AM

This may be the most inspiring story on this part of Webmaster Talk! I also looked at your website, and the website seems to be well balanced and clear. Did you do your own design? I noticed that you don't offer design services.

Keep us posted as to the progress of your business. My understanding is that services like Facebook are going to have an impact on traditional hosting services (see http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/20...-have-websites).

**Lemonie** · 02-19-2010, 04:11 AM

salut. you are awesome

great job.
btw..domain $15/year

kinda expensive

**SpecHosting** · 02-20-2010, 02:54 PM

Thank you everybody! Now to answer some simple questions.

We do offer Web Design services , it is on our homepage.

Yes, the domain names are slightly expensive, be we offer we offer email forwarding, DNS management, and Privacy Protection free of charge, so it really balances out.

**Lemonie** · 02-21-2010, 10:13 AM

ahh i see.. make a sense now. thanks to explain it

**surgeryhuston** · 02-21-2010, 08:22 PM

That's quite a story.

**loverboy420** · 02-22-2010, 01:13 PM

its amazing!!
You are great man

**Hoxlor** · 02-23-2010, 03:13 PM

very inspirational. You are very lucky and it is great to see you have been rewarded for your efforts.

**SpecHosting** · 02-23-2010, 10:40 PM

Thank you very much!

**MediaFireBrand** · 02-24-2010, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by SpecHosting

Thank you very much!

I hope you go really far.. The new HostGator *fingers crossed*

Thanks Buddy

**dvduval** · 02-24-2010, 12:55 PM

Congratulations. That is truly a great success story. Are you planning on trying to sell the business at some point in the future?

**SpecHosting** · 02-24-2010, 11:18 PM

No, I am not. I have put my life into this, and I have no plans to sell it.

**seekers** · 02-25-2010, 09:49 AM

Awesome.. Congrats to you.. It important for make your client happy.

**SpecHosting** · 02-25-2010, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by seekers

Awesome.. Congrats to you.. It important for make your client happy.

This is the most important aspect of owning a Web Hosting Company. Without happy customers, you have nothing.

**seekers** · 02-25-2010, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SpecHosting

This is the most important aspect of owning a Web Hosting Company. Without happy customers, you have nothing.

Yes, i agree with you.. but, good support is very important..

**RobK** · 02-26-2010, 03:49 AM

Excellent, very inspirational. I am peeking into the web hosting side myself. I will probably just continue to be small time as I am a web designer/developer at heart.

I love hearing success stories, people like you are people like me and so your success only motivates others, like us.

If you are looking to sign up a new up and coming web designer please let me know, I love business as much as I love web design.

Keep up the awesome work!

Btw I think you have a typo... you typed "fired" instead of hired.

**zahidndgc** · 03-22-2010, 02:25 AM

Wow! Congratulation son you really did it on top

**SpecHosting** · 03-22-2010, 09:59 PM

Thanks! It has not always been easy, but I have had so much fun growing this business, and I intend to keep growing it until were the biggest hosting company in the world!