For a mining pool owner, is it required to run his own miner, e.g. ASIC or a GPU rig, or he can operate it from laptop by setting it up in a shared web hosting, where miners will join with their mining machines ?
p.s. I believe Mining pools are operated from web hosting at data center, not local machine connected to the web. Please correct me if I'm wrong in my assumption.
You don't need to be a miner to operate a pool.
But trying to get other to use your pool is not easy task.