Aside from hosting resource-demanding sites, there is a further reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - 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 online presence, which means that they need web hosting space and a domain name. If you have a website hosting server, you'll be able to generate hosting plans and then sell them, so you can not only cover your expenses if you host your personal sites on the server as well, but you will also make a good profit by owning a prosperous 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, as well as a business account with a payment processor like PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive web payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the usage of an ordinary reseller program is that your clients will have additional system resources and you are able to set up the server-side software that their Internet sites may need so as to function efficiently. The latter will not be possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, because you will have some limitations in this regard.