What I have is a WHM "reseller" account with unlimited bandwidth and 1GB of disk space. I am my only customer and I have three domains under it, two mundane and one "commercial" (barely
). I use http, ftp and imap/smtp on all. The "commercial" site (income by advertising) runs Perl scripts both as cgi and cron jobs, some of which run up to several minutes. Altogether between all domains I use about 5GB/month of bandwidth and around 500MB of disk space, neither of which is likely to grow, so we're not talking anything of a big scale here. The cost is £66/year (for the WHM account; domain registrations are extra of course).This is all fine for my needs, or at least would be except for the occasional Tsohost messing about/cockup, and the bane of shared SMTP servers -- blacklisting.
So, my own IP would be good, but there's no way I can possibly justify spending £££s on a dedicated server, so a cheap VPS would seem to be the way to go. However, I'm not keen on a bare VPS where I have to install and/or configure everything. While I don't doubt I could, I just don't have any enthusiasm for the learning curve, and that also means I'm looking for one with pretty much the same as I have at the moment, cPanel, Apache, Linux, etc, and hopefully at a cost of not much more.
To be clear, I'm ok with doing configuration within WHM, cPanel, domain level .htaccess, etc but want to avoid having to do it at a system level, .conf files, etc.
So, anyone got any thoughts/suggestions?
BTW, in case anyone is thinking I should just change to other SMTP servers, that'd potentially be fine for email I send out from T'bird, but doesn't help for emails sent out by the cgi and cron jobs on my "commercial" site using sendmail.