In addition to hosting resource-demanding websites, there's a further reason to get a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to launch your website hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, since more and more people and businesses start their web presence, which means that they need hosting space and a domain name. If you have a server, you'll be able to generate website hosting packages and sell them, so that you can not only cover your own expenses if you host your personal Internet sites on the server as well, but you will also make a very good profit by having a profitable business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, which will be the connection between the reseller web site and your web space, plus a business account with a payment processor for example PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive Internet payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of an ordinary reseller program is the fact that your customers will have extra resources and you can install the server-side software which their websites may need in order to operate efficiently. The aforementioned is not possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, because you'll have some restrictions in this regard.