I set up Softaculous on the server today. Did you know it's only $12 a year? Only $1 a month, to save the amount of time and effort each manually created Wordpress installation takes. Not to say there's not still time involved but it is considerably less, and absolutely worth that amount.

After a lot of searching and comparison, I've decided to purchase a new VPS server for my clients and my own personal sites. I've run into a few email issues in the past few months, and despite the fact I've been with d9 for three years, and their service is great, I need to think [...]

Ah yes, a little cliche, but that's what you get from a developer.