Hosting is a very easy business to get into, unfortunately it's a very difficult business to make money out of. Why will your business compete effectively with something like AWS - which has such enormous scale and brand recognition?
You mention that you've done some work for some famous people. Have you done any of that recently? If you have some rich contacts and you are good at sales then that could be your ticket. If so, you wouldn't need marketing - just get a basic brand site built in wordpress using a contractor on elance - and your requirement for a co founder goes away!
From your business proposal: "I had a 6 figure inheritance which I blew". Why even say that? You just sound like a failire.
And "I've got somewhere between 4 and 5 k to invest in this new enterprise". Somewhere between 4 and 5 k? That makes me think that you think 1k is a lot of money. That's a problem for someone who should be a company founder.
Your business model is weak. You don't have much money to invest. Unless I'm missing something, you should save your money and try to do something that is in some way innovative so that you can compete.