HostingResolve.com’s Starting a Web Hosting Business
http://www.hostingresolve.com/book/ch01.pdf

Becoming a Web Host Company
http://www.dedicated-servers-seek.com/?articles/hosting_company

HostLibrary.com’s Starting a Web Hosting Business
http://www.hostlibrary.com/node/print/65

Another way of course is to simply become a reseller of a web hosting company, which is easier to start. Many hosting companies offer private label programs where you use their infrastructure but you can brand the business with your company name. An example of how this goes is Hostway’s Private Label program http://www.hostway.com/resellers/private_label_program.html
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I pay about $10/mth for my hosting package and maintain several other small websites for others and charge them each $10 a month to host it and do minor updates. I work with those who don’t know much about web design but want their own small site for a small or home business which I maintain and control. So not giving someone else outright access to the space on my account where they could do anything to get me shut down too, lol.
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Multiple-Domain Web Hosting – http://www.ebizalive.com
Domain Registry – http://www.misk.com

if you’re asking how do you start a company that YOU host websites for other people.then all you really need is a computer running Linux with a big hard drive and a Internet connection with allot of bandwidth and some geek to set it all up for you .there is no hosting license that i know of,you just really need to know what your doing though

on the other hand if you are asking how do you put YOUR website online,then the answer to that would be to search for a website host that gives you the features that you need for a monthly price within your budget.you signup for an account with them, upload your files to your space on their server (or email them to someone at the host),and blam they are online for the world to see.if you’re on the east coast of Canada or us,i would recommend forcenet computer services (http://www.forcenet.ca/) as they are really helpful to people that are new to website hosting and treat clients like people instead of just account numbers or dollar signs like some of the larger hosts
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If you want more flexibility in the way your site is designed and run, then you need to buy some hosting (from a company such as http://www.1&1.co.uk), which can range from cheap to very expensive depending on what you want to do with it.

You don’t need a license – thats one of the best things about the Internet – anyone can in theory do anything (providing their hosting contract allows it)

Yahoo doesn’t need a license to provide Geocities because it’s a free service – the users agree to abide by Yahoos terms when they sign up.
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