In addition to hosting resource-demanding websites, there is a further reason to purchase a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to start your hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, as a growing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so they need web hosting space and a domain. If you have a website hosting server, you will be able to create web hosting offers and then sell them, so that you can not only cover your expenses if you host your personal Internet sites on the server too, but you can also make a great profit by having a profitable 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 like PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive online payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the usage of a regular reseller program is that your customers will have much more system resources and you're able to set up the server-side software that their sites may need in order to operate effectively. The aforementioned isn't possible with a shared hosting reseller program, since you'll have certain restrictions in this regard.