Setting up a mining pool

Hi all,

I have an idea for a mining pool, and I believe it must be an achievable task nowadays to put one up.
I'm thinking about a small BTC pool for the moment (but NOT a P2Pool), I'd be happy with
MPOS as fronted and I want to run it all on a virtual Linux machine.
Of course, I asked google and I searched in this forum, but I'm still unsure if it's manageable
and what are the right steps. Can anyone tell me:
- What would be a feasible instance type (for example on Amazon AWS) for trying this
out (if you want me to put a number, I'd say below 10TH for the beginning). What are
the critical parameters? (Bandwith, I guess?)
- Is there something which comes close to a tutorial or howto? I'm not expecting a noob-tutorial
with 10 easy steps, but I'd be surprised if I have to research and build everything from the scratch
nowadays...

Thanks, best, David