It’s a typical student apartment: bare walls, second-hand furniture and a couple of 20-somethings on the couch half studying and half watching TV. You’d never know that upstairs another student is running one of the fastest- growing web-hosting companies on the Internet.

Wiredhub Inc. has clients from Japan, India and New Zealand, but 22-year-old Acadia business student Yudhishter Sethi controls it from his bedroom.

The company’s headquarters are in his hometown of Brampton, Ont., but Sethi says the beauty of an online company is that it can be run from almost anywhere.

"I can log into my servers and work on them on my PDA. I can control the power switches on my equipment in Texas from my room remotely. There’s nothing you can’t do remotely. I met this guy who owns a hosting company and he works from his boat."

Sethi keeps any figures about his company a closely guarded secret, saying the industry is too competitive to give out such information. He does admit to hosting thousands of websites and to having enough capital to buy all of his servers, which are located in four major U.S. locations.

The fourth-year student has no employees; instead he contracts the work out to other firms and keeps a handle on day-to-day operations between classes. It’s something he admits can be a problem for a full-time student...

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