Aside from hosting resource-demanding websites, there is one more reason to get a virtual or a dedicated server for yourself - to make your web hosting company. This is an ever expanding business, because an increasing number of people and businesses start their web presence, so they need web hosting space and a domain. If you have a server, you can create web hosting deals and sell them, so you can not only cover your expenses in case you host your personal sites on the server as well, but you will also make a decent profit by operating a successful business. What you need for that is a server, a billing program, 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, in order to be able to receive web payments. The benefit from reselling server space over the use of an ordinary reseller program is that your customers will have much more resources and you will be able to set up the server-side software that their sites may need so as to operate effectively. The latter will not be possible with a shared web hosting reseller program, as you'll have specific restrictions in this regard.