Other than hosting resource-demanding websites, there is another reason to obtain a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to create your web hosting company. This is an ever-growing business, as a growing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so they need web hosting space and a domain. If you have a website hosting server, you can create hosting deals then sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses in case you host your own Internet sites on the server too, but you may also make a decent profit by operating a profitable business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, that will be the connection between the reseller web site and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor like PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive web payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the usage of an ordinary reseller program is that your clients will have additional resources and you are able to set up the server-side software which their sites may need so as to operate efficiently. The aforementioned will not be possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, as you'll have certain limitations in this regard.