What about angel investors? With some money what do you think you could might be able to do that you can't do now?
An investor (be it an angel or, at a later stage, a VC fund) is interested in an exit at some point.
There's just no way a simple utility like VirtualHostX will ever generate profits that would warrant an exit event (which are limited to a sale to someone else or an IPO).
If there's no exit event, an investor doesn't get his money back. He might own a chunk of profitable business but it's paper money.