Should I choose a managed or unmanaged VPS?
Travis: I manage my own, but I do that for my other jobs as well.  So I guess you could say I'm a part time sysadmin.I say do it yourself.  You don't have that much fine tuning to do.  I just personally doubt that you're going to get very good "management" from your provider.  It will be most useful in a situation of "please install nginx to run on a separate IP so I can serve static content."  It will not be useful in preventing attacks, etc.Although I guess they could have really high service quality, I believe most places will scrimp on the services b/c they need to compete on the price.  And the whole reason for going managed is the services.