Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Hi, I'm looking for some information on starting an ISP:
So, looking for info to start an ISP ?
There is no single public document that I know that tells the ABC of how
to start and run an successful ISP. But I can say the general guidelines
that one
considers to run one, having started one in 1993 and sold out in 2001
to a public company
for a retirement.
1. The technical aspect of starting and running an ISP is only a small
part of it.
2. One needs a Business Plan to start with. Ninety-nine percent of
failure in
business ventures starts with NO Business Plan. A Business Plan is like a
Bible to religious persons; you read it every day and implement it
yourself;
only you write and re-write it yourself.
3. You also need Organization, Finance, Marketing, Support structures,
Project Management abilities, and lots of learning and re-learning in all
of these aspects of business. I recommend you read a book called "Think
and Grow Rich"
by Nathan Hale.
4. ISP business is like other businesses; they evolve with business
focus and
with the markets. You have to anticipate, implement, and re-engineer when
called for.
Hope this helps.
O Plameras
Disclaimer: Do not take my word for it. You have to make your own research
and on that basis make your own business decisions.
1) ISP Upstreams who provide rebranding (must include ADSL).
2) Info on ISP backoffice software as well (radius server, etc). I found
eg. http://www.anime.net/linuxisp/Linux-ISP-HOWTO.html but it's from
1995!
Did give me a good start to reading though... I've been doing a lot of
reading on software required - dns, email, control panel, etc. Happy for
recommendations.
3) Is there a forum - physical gathering slug-like forum - for small
to medium ISPs, in Sydney?
4) Recommended online community for small/med ISPs?
PS: I spoke to someone last Friday night, I think John - I discovered
Sat night that my mailbox was full, unfortunate events... it's emptied,
although Godaddy's IP addresses are right now RTBLed (couldn't post
this email to slug), so hopefully gmail might work...
Thanks in advance
Zen
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