Another one of my experiences
I started a small free webhosting company a while back as well, except i went a step further and had no banners on users sites, gave them subdomains, as well as ftp, and perl and cgi access.
Little did i know, this was a bad mistake..before long the address was posted on freewebspace.net and i soon had a million signuips..that was ok for a week... before service
abusers came along and started uploading illegal files and started to try and hack the server using lame scripting techniques.
So just my little bit, before you consider offering hosting, you should check if its really worth it with all the bad things that could happen.. You should also do this on a dedicated server so you have full control over the server, and can set permissions per linux user so its more secure..
Chris
