Other than hosting resource-demanding websites, there's another reason to get a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to launch your web hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, due to the fact that more and more 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 make website hosting plans and sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses in case you host your own websites on the server as well, but you may also make a very good profit by running a successful business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, that will be the link between the reseller site and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor like PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive web payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of an ordinary reseller program is the fact that your clients will have a lot more system resources and you are able to set up the server-side software that their Internet sites may need in order to function effectively. The aforementioned will not be possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, as you'll have certain restrictions in this regard.