In addition to hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there's another reason to get a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to launch your hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, because a growing number of people and businesses start their web presence, so that they need hosting space and a domain. If you have a website hosting server, you can create hosting plans then sell them, so that you can not only cover your expenses when you host your own sites on the server too, but you can also make a decent profit by owning a prosperous business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, that will be the connection between the reseller web site and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor like PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive Internet payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of an ordinary reseller program is the fact that your clients will have additional resources and you're able to set up the server-side software which their sites may need so as to function effectively. The latter isn't possible with a shared hosting reseller program, as you'll have certain limitations in this regard.