Aside from hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there's a further reason to obtain a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to launch your web hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, because an increasing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so they need website hosting space and a domain. If you have a hosting server, you will be able to create web hosting plans and sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses in case you host your own Internet sites on the server as well, but you may also make a good profit by owning a successful business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, that 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, so as to be able to receive Internet payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the usage of an ordinary reseller program is the fact that your clients will have much more resources and you can install the server-side software which their websites may need in order to work properly. The latter will not be possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, because you will have certain restrictions in this regard.