I would caution against just jumping into this and trying to be a
real ISP if your experience is in software development, sysadmin stuff, or something kind of tech industry adjacent but you've never worked for an ISP in a NOC environment, as a junior network engineer or similar for somebody else's medium to large sized ISP. There's a lot of missteps that can be made without experience.
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/experienced persons in their field for a number of years before being able to operate independently.
I do not want to discourage anyone but I've seen a myriad of 'oh my god why did they do that' small WISPs with anywhere from 50 to 1500 customers. Going down the wrong network architecture/topology/business plan path can be very costly later on if you're 100% learning as you go.
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 everything to start your own ISP, and what systems/subsystems/technologies you will want to be familiar with, could fill thousands of pages if printed in book form. It's a gargantuan task to make a website that has everything needed to start an ISP from scratch, assuming the reader hasn't been involved in somebody else's ISP operations first.
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/experienced persons in their field for a number of years before being able to operate independently.
I do not want to discourage anyone but I've seen a myriad of 'oh my god why did they do that' small WISPs with anywhere from 50 to 1500 customers. Going down the wrong network architecture/topology/business plan path can be very costly later on if you're 100% learning as you go.
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 everything to start your own ISP, and what systems/subsystems/technologies you will want to be familiar with, could fill thousands of pages if printed in book form. It's a gargantuan task to make a website that has everything needed to start an ISP from scratch, assuming the reader hasn't been involved in somebody else's ISP operations first.