I tried half a year program of doing small game server rentals instances. Not reselling, exactly, but providing slices of (good-priced) dedicated servers. Very

I tried half a year program of doing small game server rentals instances. Not reselling, exactly, but providing slices of (good-priced) dedicated servers. Very low margins, lots of support headaches, lots of competition. It probably depends on the strength of your niche. We had a semi-big brand name to bank on, and, even if we had thousands of customers, it wasn't going to pay off much in the long-run because of the market saturation and low profit. If you have some really solid provisioning technology, a strong niche, volunteer support staff (or a PROVEN automated support model), then you can shave some more profit out of it and make it successful. YMMV, of course. The best entrepreneurs succeed where others fail, so you may want to pursue it.