Other than hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there is a further reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to create your website hosting company. This is an ever-growing business, considering that more and more people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so that they need website hosting space and a domain name. If you have a hosting server, you can make hosting plans and then sell them, so that you can not only cover your own expenses if you host your personal sites on the server too, but you will also make a decent profit by operating a flourishing business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, that will be the connection between the reseller 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 online payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of a standard reseller program is the fact that your customers will have additional system resources and you'll be able to set up the server-side software which their Internet sites may need so as to function effectively. The aforementioned will not be possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, since you will have specific limitations in this regard.