Other than hosting resource-demanding sites, there is a further reason to acquire a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to make your web hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, considering that more and more 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 can create hosting packages and then sell them, so that you can not only cover your own expenses if you host your own sites on the server too, but you can also make a very good profit by owning a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, that will be the link between the reseller site and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor for example PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive online payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the use of a standard reseller program is the fact that your clients will have additional system resources and you're able to install the server-side software which their websites may need in order to function effectively. The latter will not be possible with a shared hosting reseller program, since you'll have certain limitations in this regard.