Terrible business...1&1 and similar hosts killed all of the margins. I was basically given a hosting business with 50 clients when the owner didn't want to mai

Terrible business...1&1 and similar hosts killed all of the margins. I was basically given a hosting business with 50 clients when the owner didn't want to maintain it anymore. Even paying another company to do support, we had so many issues: credit card chargebacks, customers complaining about things that aren't our problem, server issues. I think at one point I figured I would be making less than minimum wage with the time I put into it (with no hope of growing out of that). We eventually sold for a paltry amount just to wipe our hands clean of it. The only time it is worth it to do hosting is when it's in conjunction with another service...for example web designers often do hosting because a) they work it into part of their contract with a decent rate, instead of the insanely low-margin rates online now and b) since they made the website, if there's a problem they have fewer people to deal with (i.e. vertical integration).