I joined a free hosting forum to get some hosting and ended up helping out the owner quite a bit. we started a small hosting company but I had to leave it for personal issues. He continued it for 3 years, I believe and just recently it went offline. About 2 years after that I decided to start up my own hosting company, I got a great deal on a reseller account, worked on the site and idea for about a month and a half and just launched it last week. So far its going pretty good