Aside from hosting resource-demanding sites, there is another reason to acquire a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to make your web hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, since more and more people and businesses start their online presence, so they need hosting space and a domain. If you have a server, you'll be able to create web hosting offers and then sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses if you host your own sites on the server too, but you will also make a very good profit by owning a flourishing business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, that will be the connection between the reseller website and your web space, plus a business account with a payment processor such as PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive web payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of a standard reseller program is that your customers will have more resources and you will be able to install the server-side software which their sites may need in order to work effectively. The aforementioned will not be possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, as you will have some limitations in this regard.