FN-FORUM: Hosting Question

date posted 1st October 2005 01:04

This is a question to the people running hosting companies, or at
least someone that knows how they do it. Im looking for a trade secret
(its a secret to me anyway), how do hosting companies offer dedicated
servers? I understand the process of offering everything up to ded's,
eg, shared/vps etc, but to offer dedicated servers how do you do this?
Do you need a big enough budget to buy some space in a datacenter and
purchase and install the machines yourself, can you re-sell another
hosters ded's or contact a datacenter and ask for a package of X
amount of machines?

Im not looking into going into the business of selling dedicated
servers, at least at the moment, but im hopefully going to be there in
the distant future and want to be clued in and learn a little more
before i get to that stage.

Thanks for anyone that can answer.

Tam Denholm