General Business: I want my own server (???) - HELP!

If you have no technical knowledge I would recommend against getting your own dedicated server, unless its a managed option which is going to be expensive.

It really depends on the type of sites you want to host and the traffic you expect to get.

There are plenty of shared hosting companies that will let you host many, many, many domains and even resell hosting to other people.

Site5, MediaTemple, or Dreamhost to name a few.

If you want to go a little more "enterprise" level, you could look a mosso, or thegridlayer.com.

Shared hosting starts at as little as $10/month depending on the package you purchase (average about $20 with a good host/package). A manged dedicated server can run from anything from $150 to way more (mostly depending on how its connected to the network).

If you want the control of a dedicated server, you may want to start with a Virtual Private Server, which has some of the advantages of a Dedicated server, but isn't really (you're still sharing) and so is cheaper.

Mubs

Go with the MediaTemple Grid Server, which Mubs mentioned.

$20 a month, host up to 100 websites, 100gb of storage, and 1 tb of bandwidth. More than what you'll need for a long time and the best deal for the features you get.

I have a dedicated virtual with MediaTemple ($50/month) but YGG is hosted on the Grid Server.

I've found A Small Orange, they are a cpanel/whm reseller but the advantage is that you can give each customer their login details to their control panel where they can administer their own email and statistics etc without having to bug you every time. They also have great tech support. Some people like the cpanel system, some don't - I find it really simple to use. If you don't have the technical knowledge and don't want to learn it, just let someone else take care of it :)

A quick question for the MT guys, can you give others access to their own site administration or do you have to manage it all for them? The GS plan is very tempting but I don't think it would work for me unfortunately.

Also, I've got a lifetime Textdrive account and although its worth $100/mo it is sitting there idle because their tech support basically doesn't exist. I've sent tickets in that have never been responded to, and it takes days at a minimum normally. They are smart people and know what they are doing but it would be really nice if they hired some more support staff.

I think GS has a custom control panel, which would mean they needed to code in reseller support.

Plesk... ugly! I get the feeling it was written by a windows user. :P

It sounds like the webhosting space needs a 37signals-esque makeover to the control panels.