Aside from hosting resource-demanding sites, there's one more reason to purchase a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to start your hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, because an increasing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so that they need hosting space and a domain. If you have a hosting server, you can make hosting package deals and then sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses when you host your personal websites on the server as well, but you may also make a great profit by operating a prosperous business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, which will be the link between the reseller website and your web space, plus a business account with a payment processor such as PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive web payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the use of an ordinary reseller program is the fact that your customers will have additional system resources and you can set up the server-side software which their sites may need in order to operate effectively. The aforementioned will not be possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, because you will have specific limitations in this regard.