Other than hosting resource-demanding websites, there's one more reason to acquire a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to make your web hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, due to the fact that an increasing number of people and businesses start their online presence, so they need website hosting space and a domain. If you have a server, you can make web hosting package deals then sell them, so that you can not only cover your own expenses in case you host your personal Internet sites on the server as well, but you will also make a great profit by owning a successful 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 such as PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive web payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the use of an ordinary reseller program is that your customers will have considerably more resources and you will be able to install the server-side software which their sites may need to operate efficiently. The latter will not be possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, as you'll have specific limitations in this regard.