If you’re a freelancer, you’ve probably noticed that the competition in your industry has risen dramatically whether you are a writer, webmaster, graphic designer or a SEO expert.  Many people have taken to the Internet in an attempt to regain lost revenue from losing their jobs or being forced into a part time position.  As a result of the increased competition, you are probably looking for additional ways to increase your revenue streams and offering new services to your existing clientele.  One thing you might consider doing is ordering additional room on your VPS account and offering hosting to your customers.

If you have an established relationship with your customers, you know right off the bat which customers you would be willing to host and which ones you would pass on due to their tendencies to ask for countless revisions.  The easy to please customers would be ideal targets.  Contact them to find out what they are paying for their hosting or offer them a free hosting account if they commit to a certain amount of work in a given amount of time.

Most VPS accounts come with a virtualization control panel that allows you to divide your slice in any manner your please.  You can assign a client disk space, bandwidth, RAM and even CPU processing power.  This ensures that no one customer is going to use all of your resources and slow down your other customer websites.

In order to offer hosting to your customers, you should utilize a hosting provide that offers managed services on their virtual private servers.  You should also be comfortable handling support requests from your clients should they run into any issues.  For the most part many clients will have websites that take up a minimal amount of time and effort to setup and maintain but you should have a certain level of knowledge to answer any questions that may come in.