I made a lot of money from nothing back in the day, buying cheap servers from Softlayer and the like (physicals, virtual wasn't a thing) on a monthly rental, pu

I made a lot of money from nothing back in the day, buying cheap servers from Softlayer and the like (physicals, virtual wasn't a thing) on a monthly rental, purchasing cPanel licenses and selling shared hosting services. Primarily to Americans, the polar opposite of my time zone. The big money maker was having Frontpage Extensions enabled on the web server - anyone serious wanted it, and few people provided it. I also wrote my own (awful PHP3 based) payment integrations, allowing automated billing. Quite often, the business ran itself.