Aside from hosting resource-demanding sites, there is a further reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to launch your hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, since an increasing number of people and businesses start their online presence, which means that they need web hosting space and a domain name. If you have a hosting server, you'll be able to create website hosting offers then sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses if you host your own websites on the server as well, but you can also make a great profit by owning a successful business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, that will be the link between the reseller site and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor for example 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 that your customers will have more resources and you'll be able to install the server-side software that their sites may need in order to function effectively. The latter isn't possible with a shared hosting reseller program, since you will have certain limitations in this regard.