First thing is first, I have no experience of owning a business, and have never done anything like this in my life, but I wanted a feel for what people reflect!
I want to set up an online data storage space business, where customers can log in to my website, see their allocated disk space and upload files as an off-site backup which is kept forever. They can also download files, ID, pictures, whatever, to retrieve their backup.
Basically, the user pays to rent disk space on my server, and to use a wonderfully colourful website to manage it all.
Anyhow, aside from the technical stuff like security and data storage space:
What do I need to do?
Where do I need to go
Who do I need to talk to?
What do I need to consider?
I’d like to set this up and perhaps make it my only venture, endeavouring to build upon it and make it better and better as I absolutely like I.T. and I reflect that storage space backup is so vital and is often neglected.
ANY input from you would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading.
Dale
Best answer:
Answer by whocares
definitly dont seek advice from people here hahah
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First of all, you should consider that this market has a lot of huge players. Just search in google and you’ll see them. Some services are free. You’re going to have a lot of struggle.
So the first thing you need to do is map out, what makes your service so compelling that a potential consumer will choose you over your competitors.
You can talk to business owners and discuss their storage space needs to evaluate the market.
What do you need to consider? Everything… the backup service (design, development, maintenance), consumer acquisition/ retention, pricing, struggle, marketing, sales, backend support systems, billing, terms of service, etc.
Excellent Luck!
If you have the resources to take on Amazon S3, you wouldn’t be asking about the basic technical stuff here. The market is probably saturated even for the medium players like mediafire and rapidshare.
I reflect you force want to do a bit more investigate and reflect through your plot again. Sorry.
Technically even if, it would not be too hard to get a hosting plot with a lot of disk space and a CMS platform to organise client accounts and files. In Joomla for example, there are already extensions for precisely this sort of attention on a very small scale.
But, as I say, I dread you’re too late into the market.