Move to Solar Web Hosting

I’m excited to announce that I’ve moved the business website for Danenberg Consulting LLC to 100% solar powered web hosting! I’ve also become a reseller and joined their affiliate program. I’m a huge fan of solar power, by the way.

As a reseller, I interface directly with my clients to handle their support needs. It helps keep their management overhead down to one simple point of contact. I’m not looking to become some big web hosting company. The profit margins are very low, and support takes more time than it’s worth unless you have full control of your costs and are willing to devote ALL of your time to it. But for clients that I am developing custom applications for, it only makes sense to extend hosting services. It simplifies application development by having a known hosting provider. Subtle server differences can waste development time debugging configuration issues. It’s simpler management on my end dealing with fewer providers, and it can’t hurt to be a valued client who brings in a lot of business to one provider.

As an affiliate, I get a teeny commission whenever anyone signs up for service with my affiliate link. I don’t have to deal with support or anything. I don’t even have to know them. Not expecting much from this. Maybe I’ll put the proceeds toward my reed fund?

I’ve got my energy consulting client on board with this move. Currently, helping them move their site over. We’ve got future development in the works that will be hosted on solar-powered application servers. Very cool.

Here’s my business blog entry about the move to solar. I’ve also set up a page describing my web hosting services as a reseller.

I’m hoping to set up a Virtual Dedicated Server in the future so that I can move all my other sites over to solar power.