As someone running a VPS host company, I disagree with the article. It cost me far more administrative overhead than to run a shared hosting arrangement. Firs

As someone running a VPS host company, I disagree with the article. It cost me far more administrative overhead than to run a shared hosting arrangement. Firstly, although the onus is the customer to be administrator, they need plenty of help and hand-holding. Many times they are happy to pay for this help - but now we are looking at a different market completely. (The smart VPS hosters are using forums and wikis to let the customers help each other out.) Secondly, VPS customers need far more disk space, RAM, and CPU power than shared hosting. The more infrastructure you have to maintain, the higher the complexity and administrative burden. VPS customers usually demand higher availability too.