I set up an unmanaged VPS to run http://stevejbayer.net (.com is the website your on now)

The reason I set up the VPS was to learn how to setup wildcard DNS's for Anglo-Indian Blogs on my own. While my second webhost were great performance wise for a Wordpress Multi-User website such as angloindianblogs.com, they were a bit pricey in terms of Hard Disk space (Hey I need a lot more than half a gigabyte as a web developer running over 10 domains)

My third webhost was great for drupal websites but not much else.

The following Book involves setting up a VPS from windows for newbies to unmanaged servers.

Your OS: Windows
Server OS: Ubuntu 7.10
SSH CLient: Putty
VPS Provider: Slicehost or Linode

I have written the books as a reference for myself and site visitors on how to set up a self managed VPS to run Drupal, Wordpress and/or Wordpress Multi User

The book does not contain information on how to install and configure Drupal, Wordpress and/or Wordpress Multi-User as configuring those systems have much more configuration options which are too extensive to be addressed.

At most I may write a book how to install the above content management systems using CPanel on a shared host.