In addition to hosting resource-demanding websites, there is one more reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to launch your web hosting company. This is an ever-growing business, due to the fact that a growing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so they need website hosting space and a domain name. If you have a website hosting server, you can create hosting offers then sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses in case you host your personal sites on the server too, but you can also make a good profit by operating a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, which will be the connection between the reseller site and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor for instance PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive Internet payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of a standard reseller program is that your customers will have considerably more resources and you are able to install the server-side software that their Internet sites may need in order to function properly. The aforementioned isn't possible with a shared hosting reseller program, as you'll have certain restrictions in this regard.