Apart from hosting resource-demanding websites, there's a further reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to launch your hosting company. This is an ever-growing business, since an increasing number of people and businesses start their online presence, so they need web hosting space and a domain. If you have a hosting server, you'll be able to create hosting package deals and then sell them, so that you can not only cover your expenses if you host your personal websites on the server as well, but you can also make a decent profit by having a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, which will be the link between the reseller site and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor for example PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive Internet payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the usage of a standard reseller program is that your customers will have much more resources and you will be able to install the server-side software that their sites may need so as to work effectively. The latter is not possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, because you will have some limitations in this regard.