Aside from hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there is a further reason to get a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to create your web hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, since an increasing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so they need website hosting space and a domain. If you have a server, you'll be able to generate website hosting plans and sell them, so you can not only cover your expenses when you host your own sites on the server as well, but you will also make a good profit by running a profitable business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, which will be the connection between the reseller website and your web space, and a business account with a payment processor like PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as 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 customers will have extra system resources and you'll be able to set up the server-side software that their sites may need in order to operate effectively. The latter isn't possible with a shared hosting reseller program, since you will have some limitations in this regard.