Originally Posted by TidalWave

Shared hosting/virtual hosting clients are not "auto pilot" they are one of the worst customers you can have, and you will definitely be feeling it once you buy some of these companies. You will end up spending big bux on the support requirements for these clients since you will see a ton of tickets from clueless people because shared hosting has no entry barrier, its cheap to get an account and assume things will just work and when they dont freak out and blame you.