Other than hosting resource-demanding websites, there is a further reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to make your web hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, since an increasing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so they need hosting space and a domain name. If you have a website hosting server, you can generate hosting plans and sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses if you host your own Internet sites on the server too, but you can also make a good profit by operating a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, that will be the connection between the reseller site and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor for instance PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive online payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the use of an ordinary reseller program is that your clients will have more resources and you will be able to install the server-side software which their Internet sites may need in order to work properly. The aforementioned isn't possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, as you will have certain restrictions in this regard.