Start Your Own ISP
I would caution against just jumping into this and trying to be a <i>real</i> ISP if your experience is in software development, sysadmin stuff, or something kind of tech industry adjacent but you&#x27;ve never worked for an ISP in a NOC environment, as a junior network engineer or similar for somebody else&#x27;s medium to large sized ISP. There&#x27;s a lot of missteps that can be made without experience.<p>In general I would recommend thinking of starting a small ISP as a depth and breadth of knowledge base you need to develop, similar to how an apprentice electrician is expected to work under some more senior&#x2F;experienced persons in their field for a number of years before being able to operate independently.<p>I do not want to discourage anyone but I&#x27;ve seen a myriad of &#x27;oh my god why did they do <i>that</i>&#x27; small WISPs with anywhere from 50 to 1500 customers. Going down the wrong network architecture&#x2F;topology&#x2F;business plan path can be very costly later on if you&#x27;re 100% learning as you go.<p>Overall I think a site like this is a great idea, but the sheer scope of things that would need to be written down in a wiki-like format for <i>everything</i> to start your own ISP, and what systems&#x2F;subsystems&#x2F;technologies you will want to be familiar with, could fill thousands of pages if printed in book form. It&#x27;s a gargantuan task to make a website that has everything needed to start an ISP from scratch, assuming the reader hasn&#x27;t been involved in somebody else&#x27;s ISP operations first.