I was doing this Internet thing, pure professional, pure entrepreneurial since 1993 on the University of Minnesota Gopher network system (pre-Internet). In 1994 while I was in school, I hosted my record label on the college web servers for download using the .edu label undercover as a student interest organization, lol. Well, remember that Yahoo! was an .edu domain and the started under Stanford and a lot of Internet startups started under MIT under .edu before there was a .com suffix on domain names back then. The reason I’m telling you this old-school story is I figured out back in 1994 how to host and serve data to the global market.

In the 1990s, I started meeting brothas and other folks creating ISP dial-up services to allow people to dial a phone number and plug in their modem to access the raw Internet, not AOL or CompuServe. The big breakthrough was first Black mayor of Atlanta Maynard Jackson who was an early pioneer of the commercial Internet modernization helped created a huge data center with a hub OC-3 backbone to the Internet, only a few in the world sitting right there in downtown Atlanta at 55 Marietta. Remember that a Black mayor of Atlanta pulled this off in the 1990s while Blavity AfroTech is still here today rent-seeking and bootlicking Silicon Valley for validation and acceptance.

I tell you this background is to explain to you that knowing how to manage the data infrastructure and build business models and scaling up the data infrastructure is what determines your power in this game, not how much some VC funded someone startup or their valuations, that doesn’t mean shit. Every mogul, every real don had to establish their own factory and production and management center and know every line of operation on how to manufacture, pack, and distribute product to the critical mass to consume.

You want power and leverage in this tech game, then master how you manage data and build your empire on how to optimize data structures. Straight laugh at these goofballs running their mouth in these Black tech circles always talking like weak wannabee clowns about hoping someone gives them money. One thing they all learn and listen carefully – the one thing they all learn is when they get that millions of dollars from VCs and gave up ownership of their tech startup and things start messing up and budget overruns and boards ran by corporate raiders and they realized they were exploited – the one thing they learned after they fuck it all up - is they could have risen to power and done all of that shit by themselves with their own pocket money if they just knew how to leverage data centers from the bottom to the top.

Let me break down the game for you and how we growing our empire because I already knew what I just told you. See, they all over there sleep as hell on the game because they over there chasing getting recognition trying to impress people over the Internet they don’t know. In this article, I’m going to tell you exactly to start your data strategy from the bottom to the top.

Start with Cheap Web Hosting. Many of these services like Bluehost, HostGator, or GoDaddy are $4.95/month for web hosting with multiple domain capabilities and MySQL databases. With these types of services, you can create API microservices endpoints instead of websites and manage your data services in this fashion as your startup. This is very economical and how you start from the bottom.  

Graduating to Cloud-Based Services. As you scale up in growth, the cheap web hosting is going to start throttling your bandwidth and you need to move to more capacity. This is where you turn to Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure for cloud hosting services. It is best you use their shared resources instead of dedicated resources because things get expensive as hell when you try to run operations 24/7 or always on. You can run a hybrid where you use cheap web hosting as the front end and just call on-demand cloud services via API on the backend to populate data and run jobs.  

Share Space with Colocation. Now when you start hitting hundreds of thousands or millions of folks, you have to start focusing on distributed hubs and distributed loads. This is now where you need a data center strategy. At this stage, you look for data centers and services that perform colocation where either you provide a server or you rent a server and it is stored in a data center. The nice part about this is you have full control of your machines and can spec them out and scale them up as you wish. This is where you strategically place your hubs around the world to host your servers working with existing data centers. This is not as expensive as you think – you can buy a refurbished server for cheap that has good specs and hosting can be as little as $100-$200 month in a very high-speed data center.

Establish Edge-Based Modulars. This will be detailed in a future article. Edge-based modulars are actual pre-built datacenters within a shipping container and can be installed modular on spaces that were formerly abandoned or empty – think of those big empty lots in Detroit and Chicago. Edge data centers are designed to bring data closer to urban populations for faster access but the real value is to create these to create local fiscal data-driven businesses in urban communities.

Build Your Data Kingdoms. Now your business is the big league and how you can build your own data centers around the world. You should be powerful enough to now get listed as a SPAC or IPO and now you growing and growing where you need to establish your own centers like Microsoft and Amazon is doing worldwide. Your focus at this point is to find cheap electricity, cheap taxes for building data centers and you are building a global empire.

This is how you started from the bottom and now we here. Started from the bottom now the whole team fucking here. You scaled on some $4.95/month hosting plan while watching these other clowns on social media begging and presenting themselves to brag they got VC funding. You focused on your core business and as traffic and customer grew, your cash flow got you elevating your game to cloud, colocation, edge, and now your own kingdoms to run your services around the world. You are expanding the empire while the rest of these goofballs are being told by VCs to cut half their staff to save money and threaten them from future funding and they selling more shares to get more VCs like a clown keep getting further into debt applying for more and more credit cards.

You want to rise up in this game, then learn how to scale up from the bottom to the top. Stop messing with these cats talking with their hands out. You make sure you remember one damn thing about this game – at the end of the day, it’s not about the money numbers Blavity AfroTech likes to talk about. It’s always about you doing your rise to power your way, your decision and you get all the money from your hard work – that’s what all this is about. Remember - that’s what all this shit is about.