Other than hosting resource-demanding sites, there's one more reason to purchase a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to start your hosting company. This is an ever-growing business, since a growing number of people and businesses start their web presence, so that they need web hosting space and a domain. If you have a server, you will be able to make web hosting offers and sell them, so you can not only cover your expenses in case you host your personal websites on the server too, but you will also make a good profit by operating a flourishing business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, that will be the link between the reseller site and your web space, plus a business account with a payment processor for instance PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive web payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the usage of an ordinary reseller program is the fact that your clients will have much more resources and you are able to install the server-side software which their websites may need in order to operate effectively. The latter is not possible with a shared website hosting reseller program, because you will have specific limitations in this regard.