Hello Magik,
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Web Hosting UK. I already see that you have been given all the sane advise which would be required. However, I would like to add a little more to this.
If you are thinking of getting into providing hosting services yourself, its best to start off on a linux platform. If you are not absolutely tight on £££, I would actually recommend that you rent a dedicated server, albeit one of the starter ranges. For a new
web hosting provider, it would all be about establishing presence and convincing customers by giving good network speeds and enough CPU units for each website account for their internal functions and requests to be run and processed.
As and when you add more websites, you would need memory, adequate processing power (share of the CPU) and network speed. A
dedicated server gives you all this on a platter. Starting off with a semi-dedicated server is not a bad option at all, but then you would have to look at upscaling to a dedicated box sooner rather than later. At a nascent stage, where you are finding your feet in the hosting market, you would always want to avoid migration, moving of data. However, the choice is yours.
