Apart from hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there's one more reason to purchase a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to start your website hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, as an increasing number of people and businesses start their online presence, which means that they need website hosting space and a domain. If you have a website hosting server, you will be able to generate web hosting package deals and sell them, so that you can not only cover your expenses if you host your own websites on the server as well, but you will also make a great profit by running a flourishing business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, which will be the connection between the reseller website and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor such as PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive online payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the use of a standard reseller program is the fact that your clients will have additional resources and you'll be able to set up the server-side software that their websites may need so as to function efficiently. The latter will not be possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, because you'll have certain limitations in this regard.