Other than hosting resource-demanding sites, there's one more reason to purchase a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to make your hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, due to the fact that a growing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so that they need hosting space and a domain name. If you have a website hosting server, you'll be able to make web hosting package deals and sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses if you host your own sites on the server as well, but you will also make a decent profit by operating a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, 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 benefit from reselling server space over the use of a regular reseller program is the fact that your customers will have a lot more system resources and you'll be able to install the server-side software which their Internet sites may need so as to operate efficiently. The aforementioned will not be possible with a shared hosting reseller program, because you'll have certain limitations in this regard.