Aside from hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there is another reason to acquire a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to start your website hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, due to the fact that more and more people and businesses start their web presence, so they need web hosting space and a domain. If you have a website hosting server, you'll be able to generate hosting plans then sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses in case you host your own sites on the server as well, but you will also make a very good profit by owning a prosperous business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, that will be the connection between the reseller web site and your web space, plus 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 usage of a regular reseller program is the fact that your customers will have more system resources and you'll be able to install the server-side software that their websites may need so as to function efficiently. The latter will not be possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, as you'll have certain restrictions in this regard.