Set up a bunch of different websites, learn a few programming languages along the way and build up a revenue stream from different advertisers. Make sure they are legitimate sites - think jokes, games, backgrounds, fonts and there are so many other options out there. You can pick up .com domains for under $5 on the first year
I think the guy means virtual private servers/remote desktops ,not hosting.
I have one VPS linked with Hitleap and i sell the traffic on places like fiverr.com