Apart from hosting resource-demanding websites, there's another reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to make your web hosting company. This is an ever-growing business, since a growing number of people and businesses start their web presence, so they need hosting space and a domain. If you have a website hosting server, you will be able to generate hosting offers and then sell them, so you can not only cover your expenses in case you host your own sites on the server as well, but you will also make a good profit by having a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, that will be the connection 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 usage of a regular reseller program is the fact that your clients will have extra system resources and you will be able to set up the server-side software that their sites may need to function efficiently. The latter isn't possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, since you will have certain limitations in this regard.