If you have a web site, you can earn significant sums of money ($1000, $2000.00 or more) by joining Adsense, a program that places ads on your site.
Just building a fancy web site will get you nowhere. You need to educate yourself on secrets of webhosting
Make sure your hosting plan allows your site to be accessible world wide so that you get many visitors, more clicks and therefore greater adsense earnings.
To achieve this goal you must have control of certain operations of your server.