Found my Muse...but it's a service?

[MaxN]

Hey everyone,
I just picked up this book in at the store while I was looking for my summer reading books, and I found it extremely inspirational. I'm 16 years old, and i'm going to be a Junior in high school. I have already started a web design business with my friend from school -- we've had one client so far. The only thing i'm worried about is maintenance. Things sometimes take forever to fix. For example, i'll have to submit a support ticket to the company that I buy hosting from (I have a reseller account, and I sell web hosting to others). Sometimes they don't get back right away, and things just go wrong. Other time things go fine. But the thing is, can I actually get enough clients to make a great profit? I won't have that much time during the school year -- 2 hours a day to make sure everything is running smoothly at best. I'm not really sure what to do. I rather not hire other people to do the job for me, as I don't have enough money to do so. Any suggestions?

Here is my website if you would like to check it out.
http://www.enzymeonline.com

Thanks,

Max

[NatalieMac]

I suggest finding a higher-quality web host, especially if you're acting as a re-seller of their services. Their lack of response reflects poorly on you and your clients will only perceive it as bad service from you.

[rgraner]

Hi Max,

I've recently started to utilize Media Temple (http://www.mediatemple.com) as my new hosting provider and have had great success.

Since your site looks to be done as pure static html, this hosting provider would be great for you. They cost me $20/mo and provide some reseller services.

Make sure you sign up for the Grid Service, it's a new kind of service where instead of hosting your sites on one box that might crash when a huge traffic surge occurs, they share your sites over several boxes and increase / decrease as your site traffic needs.

I love seeing such a young entreprenuer as yourself make the choice to live outside of the 9-5 rat race. At your age, it wasn't even a thought in my head that there was anything else other then 9-5 so major R E S P E C T to you my man.

Keep in touch and let us know how it goes...

[MaxN]

Hey rgraner! Thanks for the reply, i've checked out Media temple. Their services look awesome, looks like a good deal. The downside is I won't be able to resell separate control panels to my clients, and that's a major issue for me since I want clients to have more control than just FTP and SSH. Thanks for the information though, that might be a possibility in the future.

Max