Other than hosting resource-demanding websites, there's a further reason to purchase a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to launch your hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, since an increasing number of 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 will be able to make web 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 may also make a decent profit by running a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, 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, so as to be able to receive online payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the usage of a regular reseller program is the fact that your clients will have additional resources and you'll be able to set up the server-side software which their websites may need to work properly. The aforementioned is not possible with a shared hosting reseller program, because you will have specific restrictions in this regard.