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		olalonde on Feb 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are the good old ideas that still mak... Not sure if it's still profitable but I used to know a few people who would rent dedicated servers and sell shared PHP hosting to small businesses. See http://www.webhostingtalk.com, http://forums.cpanel.net/forum.php and http://www.directadmin.com/forum/.

Monotoko on Feb 12, 2012 [–]

I tried this and couldn't really get off the ground... it's a very saturated market, do you mind sharing any ideas?

handzhiev on Feb 12, 2012 | [–]

Go vertical, even if it's all just a web host in behind. For example "Web hosting for dental cabinets". Of course something with value added over the host may work better

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