Just wondering why you want to set up a new pool?
maybe because of fee? if his pool can become famous enough, you can earn a lot with fees, i know this is true with altcoin, it should be with bitcoin too
There are some good pools out their already, so in order to take miners away you will have to charge less and/or offer something better. I would think the profit can't be that great at some of the pool fees that are being charged. If you could get big enough it looks like a full time job, then the larger you get the more equipment upgrades you need. Then very few pools seem to stay at the top for long, and now you have all the equipment manufactures doing their own pools. In my opinion home mining may very well be coming to a end or at least not growing like it once was. I am sure there is a lot that I have not even touched on but I just don't seeing it being a great move especially for someone that had to ask about whether a hosting service will work to host the pool.
i think it's worth it(if you know what you are doing), just an example
if you can charge a tiny fee like 1% and you are making 100 btc only with your pool, you are already earning 1 btc daily(which is very good already)
bear in mind that you are only running the pool, the miners come from all users around the world
in my example you need a bit less then 10k antminer s5 to generate 100 btc daily, so let's say a range of 1k-5k total users, not so impossible, you need to achieve 1/36 of the entire network, less than 3%(under eligius and ghash.io level)
No, it's not impossible, but it is very unlikely. As aurel57 points out, there are a ton of factors you must take into account if you decide to operate a pool. Just throwing out a canned instance of an MPOS or NOMP or whatever doesn't cut it if you're looking to attract miners. You need to provide something different than the other pools, which means you need to do some coding and testing. You need dedicated hardware, DDoS protection, etc - which means you're in a datacenter. No running your pool from home on a Pentium 3 over a crappy DSL connection. You'll need redundancy and eventually distribution to make your pool more attractive to a global audience.
Oh, and through all of this you've got some pretty stiff competition. There are already a number of really good pools out there.
OP really doesn't need to be thinking about operating, or making, a pool if the question being asked is whether it can be hosted by a web hosting service and what hosting plan to get.