In addition to hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there's a further reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to make your hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, considering that 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 can make website hosting deals and sell them, so that you can not only cover your own expenses in case you host your personal sites on the server too, but you will also make a very good profit by running a flourishing business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, that will be the link between the reseller 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 an ordinary reseller program is the fact that your customers will have considerably more resources and you will be able to set up the server-side software which their sites may need in order to work properly. The aforementioned is not possible with a shared hosting reseller program, as you'll have certain restrictions in this regard.