How to Handle Domains and Hosting for Clients (And Earn Passive Income too!) — Transcript

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1. 0:00if you're a developer or you build
2. 0:01websites for clients and you're not
3. 0:03also handling the hosting as well you're
4. 0:06missing out on a huge stream of revenue
5. 0:08i watched this video by living with
6. 0:10pixels recently and
7. 0:12he makes a couple good points but
8. 0:14overall for the most part i just i
9. 0:15disagree with him
10. 0:16he talks about how you shouldn't handle
11. 0:18domains or hosting for any of your
12. 0:20clients
13. 0:21just because it's it's another thing
14. 0:23that you have to do it's another thing
15. 0:24that can go wrong
16. 0:25and i 100 completely disagree with him
17. 0:28right now i have
18. 0:29over 75 clients that i manage all of the
19. 0:32hosting for
20. 0:33and the reason that i do this is because
21. 0:35it makes me over a
22. 0:36thousand dollars a month in pure
23. 0:39completely passive income and the reason
24. 0:41that i say it's completely passive
25. 0:42is because i'm not exaggerating on any
26. 0:46given month
27. 0:47i spend maybe maybe 30 minutes
28. 0:50dealing with clients managing their
29. 0:52website making tweaks little changes
30. 0:54here
31. 0:55for the most part i do nothing once the
32. 0:57website is set up
33. 0:58running ready to go it really is passive
34. 1:02okay so jumping into this video in order
35. 1:04to have a website
36. 1:05you're gonna need two things you're
37. 1:07gonna need a domain name and you're also
38. 1:08going to need
39. 1:09hosting if you're not a big nerd like me
40. 1:11in in simple terms a domain name is just
41. 1:14the name of your website so
42. 1:16facebook.com or google.com this is the
43. 1:18name that people are going to type into
44. 1:20the browser
45. 1:21in order to find your website the second
46. 1:22thing you're going to need is hosting
47. 1:24and i i could get super technical but
48. 1:26just in layman's terms
49. 1:27hosting is where your website lives
50. 1:30any website that you hit is located on a
51. 1:33server
52. 1:34uh typically it's a public server
53. 1:36located in a sub
54. 1:37big data center somewhere with a bunch
55. 1:39of other websites
56. 1:40now you can have public servers you can
57. 1:42have private servers let's say i have a
58. 1:44private server i would never want to put
59. 1:46my website on a private server
60. 1:48because then nobody could access my
61. 1:50website the point of having a website
62. 1:52is so other people can find it and so
63. 1:54you need to put your website on a public
64. 1:56server
65. 1:57now that public server essentially what
66. 1:59you have to do
67. 2:00is you have to pay your rent for the
68. 2:02internet you're just paying a small
69. 2:03monthly fee
70. 2:04to be able to keep your website right
71. 2:06there and typically speaking i mean it's
72. 2:08it's really inexpensive it's about four
73. 2:11to five dollars a month
74. 2:12and then also a domain name is very very
75. 2:15inexpensive in most cases
76. 2:16it's about 12 a year or a dollar a month
77. 2:20so for the domain and the hosting if you
78. 2:22if you go with
79. 2:24one of the super cheap companies you can
80. 2:26pretty much have a website
81. 2:27for about five dollars a month now
82. 2:29that's on the cheap end of course if you
83. 2:30need
84. 2:31lots of crazy uh speed lots of crazy
85. 2:34disk space
86. 2:35you know there's there's different tiers
87. 2:36that can go up from there but like i
88. 2:38said for the most part you can get a
89. 2:39website for about five dollars a month
90. 2:41okay now this is where i disagree with
91. 2:43that other video that i referenced
92. 2:45earlier in that video he says you should
93. 2:47let your clients
94. 2:48deal with all of the domains and the
95. 2:50hosting themselves
96. 2:52that way everything is 100 on them so if
97. 2:54there's any problems with the domains
98. 2:56or with the hosting it's it's not on you
99. 2:58it's not your fault now i
100. 2:59i kind of understand that i i get what
101. 3:01he's he's talking about
102. 3:03if you're a web developer or a designer
103. 3:05you may not necessarily want to deal
104. 3:07with the technical side of things
105. 3:09but i promise you it's not that
106. 3:11difficult and it makes
107. 3:12a lot of additional passive income that
108. 3:14you're probably missing out on right now
109. 3:16there there's a reason why most of my
110. 3:18clients come to me in the first place
111. 3:20and why they stick with me
112. 3:22that reason is that they don't
113. 3:23understand the technical details they
114. 3:25don't know the nitty-gritty
115. 3:27how things work how it's connected and
116. 3:29they don't want to know they don't care
117. 3:31they'll
118. 3:32all they really care about is they just
119. 3:34their company their business they know
120. 3:36that they need a website
121. 3:37and they want you to take care of it for
122. 3:39them obviously that's why i
123. 3:41have this business i want to take care
124. 3:43of that for clients
125. 3:44because it's a need and so obviously i'm
126. 3:46going to charge for those services
127. 3:48so i'm not charging five dollars a month
128. 3:50for a hosting instead i'm charging
129. 3:5215 20 35 50 sometimes 75 depending on
130. 3:56the client
131. 3:56my goal is to be a complete one-stop
132. 3:58shop for all of my clients they can come
133. 4:00to me and say bryce
134. 4:01i need a website they said great i will
135. 4:04take care of the domain
136. 4:05i'll take care of the hosting i'll take
137. 4:07care of the development i'll take care
138. 4:08of the upkeep i will do
139. 4:10everything just pay me the monthly fee
140. 4:12and it'll be done
141. 4:14now that sounds like a lot but i promise
142. 4:16you it's really not
143. 4:18so as far as the hosting goes i am my
144. 4:20own hosting provider i know a lot of
145. 4:22people go to
146. 4:23hostgator or bluehost or all these
147. 4:25different companies that are out there
148. 4:27to build their website or to host their
149. 4:29website
150. 4:30the thing though is i rent my own server
151. 4:33and it's not that difficult
152. 4:34it's not that expensive and it's not as
153. 4:36complicated as it sounds
154. 4:37i spend anywhere it's typically about
155. 4:40thirty dollars a month
156. 4:41to rent this server and then on that
157. 4:43single server i put as many websites on
158. 4:45there
159. 4:46as i want when i was first starting out
160. 4:48doing this i didn't have a thirty dollar
161. 4:50a month server
162. 4:51i was like at ten dollars a month but as
163. 4:53i've gotten more clients i've needed
164. 4:54more space and more power
165. 4:56and so i kind of ramped that up but you
166. 4:57can start doing this i'm serious for
167. 4:59about ten dollars a month you rent a
168. 5:01server
169. 5:02and you can throw as many websites on
170. 5:03there as you want and now
171. 5:05like like i mentioned before i don't
172. 5:07charge the four to five dollars a month
173. 5:09that they could find by going elsewhere
174. 5:10i charge 35
175. 5:12or 50 or 75 because they're paying me
176. 5:15for a service that i'm providing them
177. 5:17i'm not trying to compete with these
178. 5:18other guys i can't stay in business for
179. 5:20five dollars a month per website
180. 5:22if that's what they want then they can
181. 5:24go to somebody else but i'm providing a
182. 5:26service where they don't have to know
183. 5:27any of the technical details any of the
184. 5:29nitty gritty
185. 5:30i take care of all of it for them now
186. 5:31with just one single client
187. 5:33one website that i host i cover all of
188. 5:36my expenses i cover the server rental
189. 5:39and then every additional client above
190. 5:41and beyond that is pure profit
191. 5:43in my pocket so i've got one client that
192. 5:45pays 35
193. 5:46a month great my server is paid for as
194. 5:49soon as i get client number two
195. 5:52that's money in my pocket if you're
196. 5:53curious to hear more about
197. 5:55how i do this how i rent the server i've
198. 5:57built out a playlist for free you can
199. 5:59see it here on youtube i'll link it
200. 6:00right here
201. 6:01it goes step by step by step how to buy
202. 6:03a server how to rent a server how to set
203. 6:05everything up
204. 6:06how to add websites how to deal with
205. 6:08billing
206. 6:09you name it check it out right here and
207. 6:11it's i promise you it's not that
208. 6:13difficult
209. 6:14it's so easy and it really is an
210. 6:16incredible source of passive income
211. 6:18okay now going back to domains this is
212. 6:20kind of where i
213. 6:22i agree or maybe disagree i've i've had
214. 6:25clients that have kind of done
215. 6:26everything underneath the sun
216. 6:27i've had clients who have come to me and
217. 6:29say hey bryce i already have
218. 6:30my own domain can you work with that i
219. 6:32say yes that's great
220. 6:34i've also had clients on the other side
221. 6:35who say bryce i don't know what a domain
222. 6:36name is
223. 6:37i know i need one will you take care of
224. 6:39it for me so this is my thought on
225. 6:41domain names i personally
226. 6:43i'm not able to mark up domain names
227. 6:45very much money where they're only 12
228. 6:47dollars a year then i can maybe mark it
229. 6:50up
230. 6:5120 so maybe i can make a dollar or two
231. 6:54per month per domain
232. 6:55it's there's really not that much money
233. 6:57in it it's not worth it to me to try and
234. 6:59make any money off of these if a client
235. 7:02doesn't know what a domain is and they
236. 7:03want me to buy their domain
237. 7:04i'll buy it and then i'll just wrap it
238. 7:06into their monthly hosting fee so it's
239. 7:07kind of behind the scenes they don't
240. 7:08even see it
241. 7:09if i had my choice though i would for
242. 7:11the most part let a client
243. 7:12buy their own domain name the reason for
244. 7:14that is because one
245. 7:16they handle all the billing so when that
246. 7:17comes due every year they just
247. 7:19take care of it but two the domain name
248. 7:21is kind of the gateway
249. 7:22into their business let's say for
250. 7:24example that a client comes to me and
251. 7:26they're
252. 7:26so unhappy with my service they are like
253. 7:29they're so angry they want to move away
254. 7:32let's say i own their domain now i have
255. 7:33to deal with an angry client
256. 7:35i have to transfer their domain all the
257. 7:37while they're upset with me and then
258. 7:38there's a transfer fee and all this kind
259. 7:40of stuff
260. 7:40i just don't want to deal with it if
261. 7:42they own the domain name from
262. 7:44the get-go they can choose where to
263. 7:46point that
264. 7:47that domain name to which server that
265. 7:49points to so if i've got my domain name
266. 7:51over here i've got my hosting right here
267. 7:53my server
268. 7:54if these two were connected but they own
269. 7:56the domain let's say later on they want
270. 7:58to sever that connection
271. 7:59they can take that domain and point it
272. 8:01to a different server over here
273. 8:03and then that's great because now
274. 8:05they're in charge i am completely out of
275. 8:07the picture if they want to move away
276. 8:08from my hosting
277. 8:09which has never happened i've never had
278. 8:11a client be upset with my hosting but if
279. 8:13they wanted to
280. 8:14they have the keys to the kingdom and
281. 8:16they can do that so that's my opinion i
282. 8:18think that clients should handle their
283. 8:19own domains
284. 8:20but i think you should take care of the
285. 8:22hosting because it's a really good
286. 8:24source of income
287. 8:25if you're not handling the hosting i
288. 8:27think you're missing out on a huge
289. 8:29huge opportunity to make passive income
290. 8:32for months or years in the future
291. 8:34again be sure to check out the playlist
292. 8:35that i'll link here and down in the
293. 8:36description below
294. 8:38talking about how i host those servers
295. 8:40and how you can use it to make money for
296. 8:42yourself
297. 8:42thanks for watching i'll catch you in
298. 8:43the next one