Other than hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there's a further reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to create your hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, as an increasing number of people and businesses start their world wide web presence, which means that they need hosting space and a domain name. If you have a website hosting server, you will be able to generate hosting offers then sell them, so you can not only cover your own expenses if you host your personal sites on the server as well, but you will also make a decent profit by owning a flourishing business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, which will be the connection between the reseller website and your web space, as well as a business account with a payment processor like PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive online payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the use of a standard reseller program is the fact that your clients will have considerably more resources and you are able to install the server-side software that their websites may need so as to work effectively. The latter is not possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, because you will have specific restrictions in this regard.
