Other than hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there's another reason to purchase a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to create your hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, because a growing number of people and businesses start their online presence, which means that they need website hosting space and a domain. If you have a hosting server, you will be able to create web hosting package deals and sell them, so that you can not only cover your expenses when you host your own websites on the server as well, but you can also make a good profit by running a successful business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, that will be the link between the reseller website and your web space, plus a business account with a payment processor for example PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive online payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the usage of a standard reseller program is the fact that your clients will have considerably more system resources and you will be able to set up the server-side software which their Internet sites may need so as to work effectively. The latter isn't possible with a shared hosting reseller program, because you'll have some limitations in this regard.