Other than hosting resource-demanding websites, there's another reason to acquire a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to create your web hosting company. This is an ever-growing business, considering that more and more people and businesses start their online presence, which means that they need hosting space and a domain. If you have a website hosting server, you'll be able to create hosting offers then sell them, so that you can not only cover your own expenses in case you host your personal websites on the server as well, but you will also make a great profit by running a profitable business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, which will be the link between the reseller website and your web space, plus a business account with a payment processor such as PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive online payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of a regular reseller program is the fact that your customers will have additional system resources and you are able to set up the server-side software which their websites may need so as to function efficiently. The latter isn't possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, as you'll have some restrictions in this regard.