Apart from hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there is a further reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to make your website hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, because an increasing number of people and businesses start their online presence, so that they need hosting space and a domain. If you have a hosting server, you will be able to create website hosting offers then sell them, so that you can not only cover your expenses in case you host your personal sites on the server too, but you can also make a good profit by having a successful business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, that will be the link between the reseller web site and your web space, as well as a business account with a payment processor for instance PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive Internet payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of a regular reseller program is the fact that your customers will have a lot more resources and you'll be able to set up the server-side software that their websites may need in order to function efficiently. The aforementioned isn't possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, as you'll have specific limitations in this regard.