I managed to move over most of my domains to the virtual server and am pleased so far. However, I had to jump up to their next plan because I was running out of memory. So due to the limited amount of memory (512 MB with no disk swap), I’ve decided to leave mail on my server as SMTP has built in retries so if my server goes down, my store and website don’t do down with it.
So going back to my post about servers, I now get the best of both worlds, but pay a higher price. My virtual server has 3 IP addresses (I’m not sure what to do with the other 2) and has 500 GB of monthly bandwidth which is more than plenty for me. The bandwidth is also significantly faster than my current connection, so people should see better performance. I still have to keep my server running for mail, music server, and source control, but I now feel better knowing that I have a backup in case my cable modem goes down or my server decides to die again.