Aside from hosting resource-demanding websites, there's a further reason to buy a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to start your hosting company. This is a constantly growing business, considering that an increasing number of people and businesses start their web presence, which means that they need website hosting space and a domain. If you have a server, you'll be able to make hosting deals and sell them, so that you can not only cover your own expenses in case you host your own websites on the server too, but you can also make a decent profit by owning a flourishing business. What you need for that is a server, payment software, that will be the connection between the reseller website and your web space, plus a business account with a payment processor for example PayPal or 2CheckOut, in order to be able to receive web payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the usage of a regular reseller program is that your clients will have much more resources and you can install the server-side software which their websites may need so as to work effectively. The latter is not possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, since you will have specific limitations in this regard.