Aside from hosting resource-demanding websites, there's a further reason to acquire a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to launch your web hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, because more and more people and businesses start their online presence, so that they need website hosting space and a domain name. If you have a website hosting server, you will be able to create hosting deals then sell them, so that you can not only cover your own expenses when you host your own websites on the server too, but you will also make a great profit by operating a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, that will be the link between the reseller website and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor for example 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 the fact that your customers will have considerably more system resources and you'll be able to install the server-side software which their websites may need to operate effectively. The aforementioned is not possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, as you will have certain limitations in this regard.