In addition to hosting resource-demanding sites, there's another reason to acquire a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to make your web hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, because a growing number of people and businesses start their web presence, which means that they need web hosting space and a domain name. If you have a server, you will be able to create web hosting packages and sell them, so that you can not only cover your expenses if you host your personal Internet sites on the server too, but you can also make a good profit by running a flourishing business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, which will be the link between the reseller site and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor such as 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 clients will have more resources and you can install the server-side software that their Internet sites may need in order to function properly. The aforementioned is not possible with a shared hosting reseller program, because you'll have certain restrictions in this regard.