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Start your own managed wordpress hosting business? One time payout + recurring. (11)

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Hi everyone,

We are looking for 3 to 5 partners to get in the system and help give us feedback. We've already partnered with quite a few WordPress theme groups and similar verticals, and trying to reach out to the pro marketing group now .

What is Pressed.net?
My team and I have built a white label platform for managed WordPress, we allow anyone to open a managed wordpress brand with us running everything except the marketing. You can see an example at UpThemes.com of our setup in action.

Why would I want to own my own brand?
Lifetime recurring revenue from any customers on that brand. That means that not only can you build something of real value, but you can reap the recurring revenue for all time. And, even setup an affiliate program for your brand if you wanted to grow it through affiliate means.

What is the payout?
We are very flexible and can do a one time payout per customers you bring in, as well as a monthly rev split. Most of our current partners are forsaking a one time payout in exchange for the lifetime recurring revenue and brand they are building.

Signup for the mailing list of our general launch here -> http://link.pressed.net/stm


We are looking for 3 to 5 partners to get in the system asap for further feedback. Ping me via the forum if you are interested.

Just in case you are asking who the hell is behind this and why would we build a business on this platform?
We are all former team members at Site5.com, between us we have 100+ years of hosting experience, and we've been building this for the last year. We just sold Site5.com in late June and had a very nice exit:
http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-n...ew-subscribers

Hit us up if you have any questions, I'd love some feedback,
Thanks, Ben

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Just signed up, looking forward to seeing what comes out. Are the customer support reps/sys admins US-based?

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Site5, sweet, we used to host there for a while.. May be (my prev company) still do, hmm

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Thanks!

Are you interested in starting a Managed WordPress Hosting Brand and building that out? Does it fit with other sites you are building?

A big chunk, but since we are a global organization we have a lot in other countries too.
Thanks, Ben

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Awesome to hear

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A few friends/co-workers left another EIG-brand earlier this year, a few years after the brand was bought out. They were looking to get into the hosting full stop, infrastructure, support, billing, etc. I'm not trying to do that, but was looking more along the lines of white-label/reseller, so I may not be what you're looking for at this stage.

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Interesting idea! I can see white-labeled WP hosting businesses doing very well if they're niched down to specific industries - "Wordpress hosting for dentists", "Wordpress hosting for CPAs", etc.

What's the backend for the hosting based on? My usual experience with WP is that it's the caching that really bites you - what are you using for that, if you don't mind me asking? No worries if you'd prefer not to reveal your secret sauce, of course!

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Yep this is entirely white label, meaning you own the brand, but we handle everything else, leaving you free to focus on marketing and high touch if you wanted. From the legal side of things you have a legal contract that you own the recurring revenue share, we own the actual client and handle billing.

Our hope is long term we can help people view our layer as outsourcing hosting dev ops, and they can look at building niche solutions. Especially since we have the ability to bundle any combination of themes and plugins for our Premium Partners

I'd love to chat, can I grab your email? Mine is Ben@Pressed.net.

This project launched in Feb with two launch partners who helped us develop it, so this is still very young. We've been heavily focused on building the entire infrastructure on Amazon AWS etc, and the software platform that drives all this. We are working with a design firm now to get a new web page out, and a more professional UI for the end client control panel, and our partner control panel.

Thanks, Ben

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Yep that is exactly where we want to go, it already has support for what we call "bundles" and our premium partners can already create any combination of themes and plugins so that it all "just works" for clients. Imagine being able to build a saas solution for the massage therapist community, they pick from 10 to 15 designs, and each one is perfectly setup to work with a scheduling software on the backend and frontend of WP. You can even hide big pieces of WP if you want to make this a "solution". (We are still working on allowing pre-configuration of the bundles for all the options/settings, but that is in the works.)

We are a week away from moving all our current customers to our new setup on Amazon AWS , to start we just did typical dedicated servers while our dev ops team rebuilt it all over the last 6 months to use every facet of AWS.

My email is Ben@Pressed.net, can you ping me and I can send you the FAQ which has 2 pages on the stack and what we are using right now? In short we are using AWS in combination with Kubernetes, Docker, Gluster, Nginx + PHP FTP, and a lot of file system caching. We are not doing any too fancy with memcache or reddis just yet. The system is super scalable and each WP install is its own little house that can scale horizontally very easily. We've got some benchmarks we share in the FAQ too. Our team is 8 people right now, but between us we have over 100 years exp in the hosting industry

Thanks, Ben



Thanks, Ben

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Oh and if you meant the backend control panel, we have an entirely custom platform built on ruby on rails that handles all the partner setup + end user control panel. Screenshot below of a branded end user control panel:

http://i2.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-con...es-hosting.png

Keep in mind this is our first launch control panel, so the UI is pretty rough. We are working with a design firm now to get a better UI in place that doesn't make users eyes bleed . It is also pretty basic in terms of functionality, right now it lets them change billing, get support, buy domains, check stats, and change sftp/wp passwords.

Thanks, Ben

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Right now we have about 10 partners coming in from the WordPress community, especially theme and plugin businesses. I would really love to get some professional affiliate / marketers into this. If you are interested hit me up via email, I can jump start you in within 2 to 3 days and talk more on the revenue split

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