"...the unseen problems of virtual [servers] and advantages of just getting your own server. Am I right?" In my experience, you're right. For the same monthly

"...the unseen problems of virtual [servers] and advantages of just getting your own server. Am I right?" In my experience, you're right. For the same monthly amount of datacenter cost I can either install a pretty beefy machine, or rent a underpowered VPS. A disadvantage of a VPS is that they're always artifically limited in memory, disk space and CPU power, whereas in the case of a real physical server machine I can put as much RAM/drives/CPUs I want. An advantage of VPS would be no hardware cost, no redundancy concerns, easy to add/delete instances, etc. However, for me the advatages of real machines weigh heavier than those of VPS solutions, at least at present.