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I recently worked on a site run on such a server. I've set up my own servers before, and I think it can be fun, but this time it was the other guy's. I have to say it was pretty annoying because the little things that were not set up properly added up to a website that wouldn't deliver email, a shell environment with awful defaults...yuck. There was a lot of maintenance that was ignored because the guy just didn't have the time. Well, that's what commercial web hosts are for. It's amusing to think that some overburdened IT guys believe they're doing their clients a huge favor by running a vanilla web server in their network closet.