Aside from hosting resource-demanding websites, there is one more reason to purchase a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to start your web hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, because more and more people and businesses start their web presence, so that they need website hosting space and a domain. If you have a hosting server, you can make hosting plans and then sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses if you host your own sites on the server too, but you can also make a good profit by owning a successful business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, which will be the connection between the reseller website and your web space, plus 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 a standard reseller program is the fact that your clients will have more resources and you're able to set up the server-side software which their Internet sites may need in order to operate properly. The aforementioned is not possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, because you will have some restrictions in this regard.