[noduerme]

That all makes sense. Although in my experience, if you're really being careful about not sending spam, you've got a lot more to worry about from your VPS being blacklisted than your own IP personally.

>> I’m somewhat worried about the possibility of DDOS

The one time I got severely dDoS'd, because I'd let a friend run a tiny static website off my server that attracted that kind of attention, the hosting company I was with shut my account down immediately and asked for $5000 in reparations. I had to backdoor into the server and salvage whatever I could. That was a hardened box in a military grade facility. I don't think a VPS is going to be kind. Push comes to shove, if it's in your house you can pull the cable.