In addition to hosting resource-demanding websites, there is one more reason to purchase a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to launch your hosting company. This is an ever-growing business, since an increasing number of people and businesses start their web presence, which means that they need web hosting space and a domain name. If you have a hosting server, you'll be able to make hosting packages and sell them, so you can not only cover your expenses if you host your own sites on the server as well, but you can also make a good profit by operating a prosperous business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, that will be the connection between the reseller web site and your web space, as well as a business account with a payment processor like PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive online payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the use of a standard reseller program is that your customers will have a lot more system resources and you're able to set up the server-side software which their websites may need so as to operate effectively. The latter isn't possible with a shared hosting reseller program, as you'll have certain restrictions in this regard.