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One issue I would caution about VPSes is that because there can be more than one VPS on a physical server, there has to be contention for resources. The vast majority of the time this may not (and hopefully will not) be an issue, but imagine that one VPS starts hammering disk. The disk has a performance limit, and therefore the resource can be starved. The managing server will do its best to prevent one VPS from affecting another, but it can and does happen. If the physical server has a huge RAID array of disks this problem will be lessened greatly; likewise if it has 8 cores instead of one. If it's not standard practice for a hosting provider to tell customers what hardware your VPS is running on and how many other VPSes can be on the machine, it should be.