Aside from hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there's one more reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to start your hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, due to the fact that a growing number of people and businesses start their online presence, which means that they need web hosting space and a domain name. If you have a website hosting server, you will be able to create web hosting packages and then sell them, so that you can not only cover your expenses in case you host your own Internet sites on the server as well, but you will also make a good 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, as well as a business account with a payment processor for example PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive online payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the usage of a regular reseller program is that your clients will have a lot more resources and you can install the server-side software which their Internet sites may need so as to work properly. The latter will not be possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, as you will have specific restrictions in this regard.