I’m thinking about doing some WordPress hosting. I haven’t discussed this with my partners yet, but I think it would be a good way to get our name (SliverNet) out there and some traffic flowing through our server. I’ve done a little bit of looking and it looks like the way to do it is charge little and rely on lots of customers. I’m not sure how this will work, but I think it’s worth looking into. If we offered some sort of cheap Blog Hosting, do you think people would buy it? I think they just might.
Just an idea.
That’s one way to do it. Since “WordPress Hosting” is really just PHP/MySQL hosting (which everybody already does), you’d need to differentiate yourself through support and additional services. Spreading those costs over a larger userbase is obviously ideal.
If your target customer is someone new to blogging, what value would you provide over Blogger or TypePad? To such a customer, the fact that it’s WP doesn’t mean anything; they’re simply (and understandably) interested only in what features the software/service provides.
If your target customer is someone with more experience, what value would you provide over TextDrive or DreamHost or any other place where they’re able to upload PHP files and create a MySQL database?
Yeah… we need a gimmic. Need to think about this one a bit.
ReviseMedia has recently ended a WordPress Hosting campaign. I can only guess it was rather successful for them (as far as notoriety), but unfortunately, they have recently ended it. This is especially sad because several friends of mine were wanting to sign up for accounts. The bargain over typical webhosting was discounted domain name registration and only $4.95/year for only WordPress. Other places offer WordPress, but only with their hosting plans at anywhere between $5/month to $20/month. Not nearly as attractive this way.
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