Hello,

I am interested on starting such a business. I would like to ask people the steps that I must do. I already bought the domain also the free hosting signup script and I plan to give visitors 25MB free cpanel accounts with instant activation. Is this a good idea?
I am also looking for partners who can help me by investing their free time, some money, work etc. Do you know where can I find them?

Thanks.

Hi i would be glad to help you out in my free time and BTW what signup script did you chose coz i have been thinking of starting a free host but just dont have any mouny to invest!

www.freewebhostingtalk.com (Also run by inet) seems like a good place to start. Theres a lot of good information there :)

Have you come up with a plan for making money? Judging by the turnover rate the past decade, ad supported free hosting is not profitable for 99% of "free hosts".

I would not do instant activation unless you seriously know what you are doing. You will get hundreds of sign ups world wide primarily used to spam.

Lock down your sendmail limits
Block IP classes from countries with known issues