In addition to hosting resource-demanding Internet sites, there is one more reason to acquire a virtual or a dedicated server of your own - to create your hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, as more and more people and businesses start their world wide web presence, so that they need website hosting space and a domain name. If you have a hosting server, you can make hosting deals and then sell them, so you can not only cover your expenses when you host your own sites on the server too, but you will also make a great profit by having a lucrative business. What you need for that is a server, billing software, that will be the link between the reseller site and your web space, as well as a business account with a payment processor for example PayPal or 2CheckOut, so as to be able to receive online payments. The advantage of reselling server space over the usage of an ordinary reseller program is the fact that your customers will have much more system resources and you will be able to install the server-side software that their Internet sites may need to work properly. The latter will not be possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, as you will have certain limitations in this regard.