This one time, at band camp, Mary Gardiner wrote:
>You will want to be reasonably sure you can handle the administrative
>basics of a Linux server if you choose this option. It's almost
>certainly overkill if you just want a mailbox, but if you have websites
>and mailboxes and are sick of the restrictions of virtual hosting (only
>X number of domains, only Y number of mailboxes, only Z number of shell
>accounts) then a virtual machine is the next step -- and it costs about
>the same as a virtual hosting account with lots of diskspace.

But if you *don't* want the hassle of looking after the machine
yourself, applying security updates, keeping the server up practically
permanently, and all you want is a vhost that does python cgi and a few
mailman lists, AND they cost about the same...

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