In addition to hosting resource-demanding sites, there is another reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to start your web hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, considering that more and more people and businesses start their web presence, which means that they need web hosting space and a domain. If you have a server, you will be able to generate website hosting deals and sell them, so that you can not only cover your expenses if you host your personal sites on the server as well, but you may also make a decent profit by operating a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, that will be the connection between the reseller website and your web space, as well as a business account with a payment processor for instance PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive web payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of a regular reseller program is that your clients will have more resources and you can install the server-side software which their sites may need so as to work efficiently. The latter is not possible with a shared hosting reseller program, because you will have certain restrictions in this regard.