Other than hosting resource-demanding sites, there is another reason to get a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to create your website hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, as an increasing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so they need website hosting space and a domain name. If you have a website hosting server, you will be able to generate website hosting deals and then sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses when you host your personal Internet sites on the server too, but you may also make a good profit by owning a flourishing business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, that will be the connection between the reseller web site and your web space, plus a business account with a payment processor for instance PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive Internet payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of a regular reseller program is the fact that your customers will have much more system resources and you can install the server-side software that their Internet sites may need so as to work properly. The latter is not possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, since you will have certain restrictions in this regard.