In addition to hosting resource-demanding websites, there is another reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to launch your hosting company. This is an ever-growing business, since more and more people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so they need web hosting space and a domain name. If you have a server, you will be able to generate website hosting packages and sell them, so you can not only cover your expenses if you host your personal Internet sites on the server as well, but you can also make a good profit by operating a successful business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, that will be the link between the reseller web 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 Internet payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of a regular reseller program is that your customers will have much more system resources and you are able to install the server-side software which their websites may need to operate effectively. The latter is not possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, as you will have certain limitations in this regard.