Godaddy VPS or swith to another provider?

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Published on 2011-11-19T17:54:48Z Indexed on 2011/11/19 18:15 UTC
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Long story short, I want to be able to have close to full control over my server, mainly being able to install things on my sever that Godaddy shared hosting does not allow (gzip, etc..).

Should I switch providers to something else (all my domains are hosted there) or upgrade my hosting to VPS.

If I upgrade, how hard will it be to set it up without their "assisted service" or something setup (where they do virus scanning, etc.)?

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