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Comment by mrcharles | Hacker News Reader

Some of us aren't heavy web programmers.

I can vouch for dotBen's recommendation. I recently signed up with a VPS for the first time a year ago for a site I'm still in the progress of building. There are a ton of step-by-step guides and how-to resources that make getting up and running relatively easy and painless. You'll be overwhelmed by the options you'll have access to, but there's really only a handful of decisions you need to make to get started. Go for a Managed VPS and you don't even have to worry about keeping up with system upgrades and such.

There's of course, the added reward of having learned and accomplished something new.

Honestly, that doesn't matter.

Anyone who is the slightest bit technical would gain a lot from managing a VPS for their site. Even if you just want to host a bunch of wordpress blogs, or even static files.

You're glossing over the complexity of configuring email solutions. Though I'm not entirely certain if you're only advocating web hosting on a VPS with mail through something like Google Apps for Domains.

Things like Exim and Postfix are non-trivial to setup correctly and very easy to screw up the configs, at least in my experience; though most of the time that I've tried to configure them I was trying to get them to do non-standard things (like redirect all outgoing emails to non-whitelisted -- through a pattern/regex -- email addresses to a specific mailbox).

So you pay twice as much and have to do more work? Keeping my blog up-to-date is challenging enough as it is.

You discount the power of being lazy.

^_^

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